Henri-Jacques-Edouard Evenepoel
At the Moulin Rouge

CultureBelgian
Titles
  • At the Moulin Rouge
Date1897
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 28 3/4 × 23 1/2 in. (73 × 59.7 cm)
Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, museum purchase funded by Audrey Jones Beck
Object number2002.121
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
223 Beck Galleries
On view

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ProvenanceProperty of a Gentleman; Sophie Fraikein-Devis and André Devis, Brussels; [Sotheby's, London, Impressionist and Modern Art, Part 1, 5 Feb. 2002, Sale no. L02002, Lot no. 003]; gift to the MFAH from Audrey Jones Beck, 2002.
Exhibition HistoryEXHIBITED:

Brussels, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire, Exposition d'œuvres de Henri Evenepoel, 1897-1898, no. 34.

London, Continental Gallery, 1989, Paris, Champs-de-Mars, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Salon de 1899, 1899, no. 544.

Brussels, Musée royal de Peinture, La Libre Esthétique, 1905, no. 17.

Venice, Palazzo dell'esposizione, Settima esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, 1907, no. 29.

Antwerp, L'Art contemporain, 1909, no. 229.

Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Exposition H. Evenpoel, 1913, no. 85.

Brussels, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire, Exposition d'œuvres de Henri Evenepoel, 1923-1924, no. 12.

Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Exposition réetrospective Henri J. Evenepoel, 1932, no. 85.

Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Henri Evenpoel, 1942-1943, no. 40.

Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire. XXlle Salon, Rétrospective Evenepoel, 1948, no. 32.

Antwerp, Musée royal des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective H. Evenepoel, 1953, no. 91.

Brussels, Musée royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Henri Evenepoel, 1994, no. 172, illustrated in color as the frontispiece to the catalogue (detail); p. 273, no. 172, illustrated in the catalogue.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed recto lower right: "h evenepoel 97"
Numerous labels on verso stretcher:

Printed and typed: "ANTWERPEN / Retrospectieve H. EVENEPOEL 1953 / Titel: Le bal du Moulin rouge / .....cat. nr. 91 Eigenaar: Mme. André Devis, 15, Av. / de l'Oreé Bruxelles"

In ink: "Le Moulin Rouge / Collection André Devis / 47...illegible"

Printed with ink: "GALERIE GEORGES GIROUX / 43 Boulevard du Regent Bruxelles / EXPOSITION RETROSPECTIVE / HENRI J. EVENEPOEL / FEVRIER - MARS /1932 / Titre Au Moullin Rouge / Date 1897...No cat 085 / Collection Andre Devis"

Printed: "Collection / of / George E. Mathysen - Gerst"

Printed: "Retrospective / Evenepoel / XXIIme SALON / ...torn / Cercle Artistique / et lit teraire / 1948 / A FIRER AU DOS DE L O EUVRE"
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