La Lepreuse
Date1896
Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(French painter, printmaker, draftsman, 1864–1901)
Illustration CitationTheater program for La Lepreuse at the Théâtre de la Comédie-Parisienne, Paris
MediumCommercial single-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 19 11/16 × 12 3/4 in. (50 × 32.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-53
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec's gained fame for his posters depicting Parisian cabarets, theaters, dance halls, and brothels, scenes that he himself lived when he moved to the Montmartre district of Paris in 1885. He also illustrated theater programs, book covers, menus, and other ephemera. Here he suggests the lead character of Henri Bataille's play The Leper, a young woman whose deformed hands identify her disease.
Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
1896
