Irish and American Bar, Rue Royale (The Chap Book)
1895 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Cleveland Museum of Art
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
- Year
- 1895
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 41.5 × 62 cm
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
Two regulars of the Irish and American Bar in the rue Royale, a coachman of the Rothschilds and a jockey, sit at the counter while Ralph, the Chinese-American barman, mixes drinks beneath the bottles. Toulouse-Lautrec designed the lithograph in 1895 as a poster for the Chicago literary magazine The Chap-Book, which had asked him for a design; the bar was one of his favourite haunts, where he drank cocktails with the jockeys and grooms of the English colony. The flat ochre, black and white and the crop of the bar rail are among his most economical. Printed by Chaix, Paris. The impression reproduced belongs to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
An ochre bar scene, horizontal and dry, for a bar cart wall, kitchen or study at 24×16 or 36×24 in thin black or dark wood, no mat. It suits a white or dark green wall and pairs with Au Concert.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1895)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Palette
- cornflower blue
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- kitchen, study or library, home bar, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×16. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
The full-bleed edition
The painting printed edge to edge, filling the whole sheet (very slightly cropped to fit) — and available on gallery-wrapped canvas.
