Irish and American Bar, Rue Royale (The Chap Book)
1895 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Cleveland Museum of Art
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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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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 16×24 or 24×36 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
- Exhibition poster of a Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1895)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue, cream & beige
- 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 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
The full-bleed edition
The same plate printed edge-to-edge, filling the whole sheet — bold and immersive.
