At the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
1891 · Colour lithograph (poster, three sheets) · Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi
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About this work
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
- Year
- 1891
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster, three sheets)
- Collection
- Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi (impression Inv. 138; the poster exists in many impressions)
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
The dancer Louise Weber, known as La Goulue, kicks up her white petticoats at the centre of the Moulin Rouge dance floor while her partner Valentin le Désossé, drawn as a grey silhouette with a top hat and a jutting chin, looms in the foreground and the audience is reduced to a black frieze of hats behind her. The yellow globes of the gas lamps float across the top. Toulouse-Lautrec designed it in 1891, his first poster, commissioned by the cabaret for its second season; around three thousand copies were pasted up across Paris and made him famous overnight. The flat colour, cropped figures and bold lettering came from Japanese prints and from Jules Chéret, whose poster it replaced. Impressions survive in many museums, including the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A poster with flat colour and bold lettering, made for a kitchen, bar area or hallway where its graphic punch reads from a distance at 24×32. Black frame, no mat, on white or deep red; it pairs with the Manet bar.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1891)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- kitchen, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×32. Prints at 12×16, 18×24, 24×32 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×32 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
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.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
