Émilie

Inscription: Signed and inscribed (lower left): à (to) Emilie / HTLautrec [HTL in monogram]

Adolphe Manigault, Paris (bought from the artist); Louise de Boccard, Paris (until 1948; sold in July 1948 to Wildenstein); [Wildenstein, Paris and New York, 1948–49; sold in May 1949 to Ball]; [A. & R. Ball, New York, 1949; sold on May 3, 1949, for $12,200. to Sheafer]; Lesley and Emma Sheafer, New York (1949–his d. 1956); Emma A. Sheafer, New York (1956–d. 1973)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection: A Selective Presentation," July 16, 1975–?, no. 36 remarks that Dortu dates it to about 1898, a year when Lautrec's health began to deteriorate markedly.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Toulouse-Lautrec in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 2–September 29, 1996, unnumbered cat. (fig. 66).

Denver Art Museum. "Toulouse-Lautrec from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 15–October 15, 1999, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," March 19–June 22, 2015.

M. G. Dortu. Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre. New York, 1971, vol. 3, pp. 412–13, no. P.675, ill., dates it about 1898 and places it in the collections of Adolphe Manigault and Mme Louise de Boccard.

Yvonne Hackenbroch and James Parker. The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection: A Selective Presentation. Exh. brochure, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1975, unpaginated, no. 36.

Naomi E. Maurer in Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1979, p. 301, under no. 98, fig. 1.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 505, ill.

Colta Ives. Toulouse-Lautrec in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1996, pp. 56, 61, ill., notes that Lautrec's interest in sporting scenes revived during his recuperation at Neuilly and his outings in the neighboring Bois de Boulogne with its Longchamp racetrack, which may have been the backdrop for this painting.