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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Monsieur Louis Pascal Seen from the Rear, Circa 1893
Author:
Henri de Toulouse-LautrecBio:
Albi, França, 1864-Saint-André-du-Bois, França ,1901Title:
Monsieur Louis Pascal Seen from the RearDate:
Circa 1893Medium:
Óleo sobre cartãoDimensions:
64 x 45 x 2,5 cmCredit line:
Doação Mario de Almeida, 1952Object type:
PinturaInventory number:
MASP.00122Photography credits:
João Musa
Louis Pascal was the son of a Gironde police commissioner. He was Toulouse-Lautrec’s cook and in 1893 the latter made another, similar portrait of this model in profile. This second painting, Monsieur Louis Pascal Seen from Rear, conserved at the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, in Albi, is the principal clue to the date of the gouache in the Masp Collection. According to Camesasca (1987, p. 234) the latter may have been a first idea for the pose of the Albi picture.
— Unknown authorship, 1998
Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).
