The Laundress
1888
- Medium
- black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground
- Dimensions
- 75.9 × 63.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190673
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced this drawing to illustrate an article about Parisian summers. It presents the type of poorly paid worker who remained in the city while others traveled to escape the urban heat. Because the image was to be reproduced in black and white, Toulouse-Lautrec thinned and brushed ink, scraping into it to expose fine white highlights. Like several artworks in Cleveland’s collection, the drawing was formerly owned by Roger Marx, a French collector, curator, and art critic who built perhaps the most substantial holdings of Toulouse-Lautrec’s work around the turn of th…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1952.113
Registry history
- 1888 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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