Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Inscribed (verso): Mon portrait par / Toulouse Lautrec / en 1887 / atelier rue Caulaincourt / [Grenier?] (My portrait by Toulouse Lautrec in 1887 studio rue Caulaincourt)
Gallery Label René Grenier and Lautrec were fellow students in the atelier of Ferdinand Cormon during the 1880s. Before establishing his own studio in the Rue Caulaincourt in 1886, Lautrec lived with Grenier and his wife Lili, an actress and model, both of whom occasionally posed for him.
Provenance Gustave Pellet; Pierre Decourcelle (by 1921–d. 1926; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 16, 1926, no. 75, for Fr 60,000 to Sanchez-Abreu); Pierre Sanchez-Abreu, Paris (1926–at least 1931); [André Weil, New York, until 1948; sold in November 1948 to Wildenstein]; [Wildenstein, New York, 1948–52; sold on December 8, 1952 to Astor]; Vincent Astor, New York (1952–about 1953; part of divorce settlement to his second wife, Mary Cushing Astor [later Mrs. James W. Fosburgh]); Mrs. James W. (Mary Cushing) Fosburgh (by 1955–d. 1978; cat., 1955, p. 94)
Exhibition History Paris. Galerie Manzi, Joyant. "Éxposition rétrospective de l'œuvre de H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)," June 15–July 11, 1914, no. 202 (handwritten addendum to catalogue as "Portrait d'homme blond...").
Paris. Musée des Arts Décoratifs. "Exposition H. de Toulouse-Lautrec," April 9–May 17, 1931, no. 48 (as "Portrait du peintre Grenier," lent by Pierre Sanchez-Abreu).
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Toulouse-Lautrec," October 29–December 11, 1955, no. 10 (as "René Grenier," lent by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Fosburgh).
Art Institute of Chicago. "Toulouse-Lautrec," January 2–February 15, 1956, no. 10.
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters, and Lithographs," March 20–May 6, 1956, no. 9 (as "René Grenier," lent by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Fosburgh, New York).
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni," May 8–June 18, 1956, no. 95 (as "René Grenier," lent by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Fosburgh).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Toulouse-Lautrec in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 2–September 29, 1996, unnumbered cat. (fig. 27).
Denver Art Museum. "Toulouse-Lautrec from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 15–October 15, 1999, no catalogue.
Rome. Complesso del Vittoriano. "Toulouse-Lautrec: Uno sguardo dentro la vita," October 11, 2003–February 8, 2004, no. I.12 (as "Monsieur Grenier, artiste peintre").
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920," February 4–May 6, 2007, no. 114.
Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "Französische Meisterwerke des 19.Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," June 1–October 7, 2007, unnumbered cat.
References Gustave Coquiot. Lautrec, ou quinze ans de mœurs parisiennes, 1885–1900 . Paris, 1921, pp. 61, 121.Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864–1901 . 1, Paris, 1926, pp. 106, 264.Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864–1901 . 2, Paris, 1927, p. 8.H. de Toulouse-Lautrec . Paris, [1938], p. 81.Toulouse-Lautrec . 1st ed. New York, 1938, p. 268.Lautrec et son temps . Paris, 1954, pp. 27, 58 n. 2.Catalogue of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Fosburgh . 1955, p. 94.Art News 55 (May 1956), p. 24, ill. p. 22.T-Lautrec . Cleveland, 1960, p. 129 [French ed., 1958, p. 146].Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre . New York, 1971, vol. 1, p. 124; vol. 2, pp. 138–39, no. P.304, ill.in The Complete Paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec . London, 1973, p. 100, no. 204.in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1979–1980 . New York, 1980, pp. 44–45, ill.Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 1985, pp. 11, 232–33, ill. (color).in Toulouse-Lautrec . Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery. London, 1991, p. 72 n. 83.Toulouse-Lautrec & ses amis . Exh. cat., Musée Toulouse-Lautrec. Albi, 1992, pp. 36–37, ill.Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life . London, 1994, p. 248.Toulouse-Lautrec in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1996, pp. 26, 61, fig. 27 (color).in Toulouse-Lautrec: Uno sguardo dentro la vita . Exh. cat., Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome. Milan, 2003, pp. 130–31, no. I.12, ill. (color).in The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920 . Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. New York, 2007, pp. 154, 258–59, no. 114, ill. (color and bw).
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