Portrait of Jeanne Wenz
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
1886
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this portrait when he was only 22 years old and still an art student. He used subtle coloring with accents of pink and green and showed his subject, Jeanne Wenz, in full profile, a compositional device often found in Renaissance portraiture. Wenz was the mistress of Frederic Wenz, Toulouse-Lautrec’s fellow student at the painter Fernand Cormon’s studio. She was also the friend of Suzanne Valadon, an artist in her own right and a frequent sitter for Toulouse-Lautrec.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 80.7 × 59.5 cm (32 × 23 1/4 in.)
Museum record · 5 owners · 18 exhibitions
Provenance
- Given by the artist to Arthur-Paul Huc, Toulouse.
- Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by 1912.
- Pierre Decourcelle, Paris, by at least 1914; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 16, 1926, for 63,000 francs, to Jerome Stonborough.
- Jerome Stonborough (died 1938), New York; his estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 17, 1940.
- Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, 1940; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, October 3, 1941.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galerie Manzi, Joyant, Exposition rétrospective de l’oeuvre de H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), June 15-July 11, 1914.
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, March 6-April 20, 1947.
- Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center, 19th and 20th Century European and American Art: The Opening Exhibition of the New Des Moines Art Center, June-July 1948.
- Saginaw, Mich., Saginaw Museum, Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting at the Saginaw Museum, December 19, 1948-January 9, 1949.
- Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, October 20-November 19, 1950, no cat. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Toulouse-Lautrec.
- Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Albi Museum, October 29-December 11, 1955; Art Institute of Chicago, January 2-February 15, 1956 New York, Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs, March 20-May 6, 1956.
- New York, Wildenstein and Co., Inc., Loan Exhibition: Toulouse-Lautrec.
- For the benefit of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Inc., February 7-March 14, 1964.
- Vienna, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, June-July 1966.
- Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists, October 22-December 8, 1968.
- Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, April 10-June 1, 1969.
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600-1900 in the Art Institute of Chicago, July 8-September 11, 1978.
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, October 4-December 2, 1979.
- Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980.
- Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1985; Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5-February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986.
- Leningrad, Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, March 15-May 19, 1988; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
- Nagaoka, Niigata Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan (Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art), Masterworks of Modern Western Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, April 20-May 29, 1994; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10-July 24, 1994, Yokohama, Yokohama Museum, August 6-September 25, 1994.
- Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Three Women: Early Portraits by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, April 6-July 21, 2002, no cat. no. Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 9, 2019 – January 27,2020.
