Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Dinner at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. Natanson

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Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec(French, 1864–1901)French, 1864–1901

CultureFrench

Titles

Dinner at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. Natanson

Date1898

PlaceParis, France

MediumOil on board

Dimensions22 1/2 × 30 3/4 in. (57.2 × 78.1 cm)
frame: 33 1/8 × 41 5/8 in. (84.1 × 105.7 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck

Object number98.303

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

223 Beck Galleries

Exposé

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Department

European Art, Beck Collection

Special Collections

Object Type

PAINTING

Provenance[Galeries Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by 1914] [1]; Jos. Hessel (Brussels, 1859–Paris, 1942) Paris, by 1926 until at least 1930/31; [The Lefevre Gallery, London, by 1946]; R[ichard]. A. Peto (London, 1882–Isle of Wight, UK, 1963), Bembridge, Isle of Wight (possibly by 1946; by 1947) [2]; Rosemary Peto (dates unknown), Bembridge, Isle of Wight, by descent, 1963 [3]; [Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1967]; purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John A. and Audrey Jones Beck, Houston, 1967 [4]; given to MFAH, 1998

[1] As object card, no. 336, stock no. 798, this painting was owned by Paul Rosenberg (Paris, 1881–France, 1959) by 1914 until at least 1918, when this system for photography was in place. Paul Rosenberg Photo Image Card (recto/verso). Toulouse-Lautrec, Le déjeuner, photo image no. 336. Cards created by Rosenberg gallery between 1922-1940. The Paul Rosenberg Archives, Inventory Card Filing System [III.D.1] MoMA Archives, NY.

[2] This was shown in London in 1947 at the Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition, “French Paintings from Mr. Peto’s Collection.” Richard Ainsworth Peto, Geneanet: https://gw.geneanet.org/blainemco?n=peto&oc=&p=richard+ainsworth (Accessed by Julia May Boddewyn 11 October 2024)

[3] Peto’s wife was not Rosemary Peto the artist.

[4] Invoice from Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd. to Mr. John A. Beck, dated 20 March 1967. MFAH Object file (Confirmed by Julia May Boddewyn, 11 October 2024)

Exhibition HistoryGalerie Rosenberg, Paris, 1914.

"Toulouse-Lautrec," Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 1914.

"Trente Ans d'art indépendant," Salon des Indépendants, Paris, 1926.

"Toulouse-Lautrec, trentenaire," Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1931.

"Delacroix to Dufy," Lefevre Gallery, London, 1946.

"Paintings from Mr. Peto's Collection," Arts Council of Great Britain, London and extensive tour, 1947–48.

"Toulouse-Lautrec," Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1951.

"French Paintings: A Second Selection from Mr. Peto's Collection," Arts Council of Great Britain, Exeter and extensive tour, 1951–52.

"French Impressionists from the Peto Collection," City Art Gallery, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1960.

"The French Impressionists and Some of their Contemporaries," Wildenstein and Co., London, 1963.

"The Collection of John A. and Audrey Jones Beck," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1974.

"Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings," The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.

"The Magic Mirror: The Portrait in France 1700–1900," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1986–87.

"The World of Toulouse-Lautrec," Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 1989.

"Toulouse-Lautrec," Hayward Gallery, London, October 8, 1991–January 19, 1992; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, February 18–June 8 1992.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: Stamp used is the artist's distinctive mark incorporating his initials so that the vertical lines of the T and the L are also either the vertical lines for a letter H or are connected by a hyphen. The entire device is surrounded by a circle.:

Stamped, lower left, recto: "TL"

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