Though Toulouse-Lautrec was born into an aristocratic family in the South of France, he spent his career recording the everyday lives of working people in Montmartre with unusual sympathy and insight. In the 1890s he grew increasingly interested in the prostitutes who lived and worked around him (and whom he probably frequented on occasion). A double chin and coquettish, curled bangs identify this portrait as the likeness of a particular individual, but the artist also set out to portray a type, the most desperate class of prostitute: a pierreuse, or streetwalker, who met her clients on the street, rather than in the relative safety of a licensed brothel.
Details
- Artist Name: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901)
- Title: The Streetwalker (formerly Portrait of a Prostitute)
- Date: 1892-1894
- Medium: Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions: 24-3/4 x 19-1/8 in. (62.8 x 48.6 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.2000.1.3.P
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
[?Léon] Orosdi, by 1914.
S. Sévadjian (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 22 March 1920, lot 21, ill., as La pierreuse, to);
Heibel.
[Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by 1926].
Mlle. Jane Renouardt [?Renouard], Paris, sold 1938 to;
[Paul Rosenberg, Paris, and New York (after 1940), Paris stock no. 338, as Pensionnaire de maison Close/New York stock no. 5095, as Profil, sold 20 February 1957 to];
Robert Ellis Simon, Los Angeles, bequest 1969 to;
The Norton Simon Foundation, acc. F.1969.38.11.P, sold 2000 to;
Norton Simon Art Foundation
Exposition d'oeuvres de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Paris, Galeries Paul Rosenberg, 1914-01-20 to 1914-02-03
Exposition retrospective de l'oeuvre de H. de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Paris, Galerie Manzi Joyant, 1914-06-15 to 1914-07-11
Exposition H. de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, 1931-04-09 to 1931-05-17
French Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries
- New York, Paul Rosenberg and Co., 1945-11-26 to 1945-12-22
Great French Masters of the 19th Century
- New York, Paul Rosenberg and Co., 1947 to
Toulouse-Lautrec
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1955-10-29 to 1956-02-15
- Art Institute of Chicago, 1956-01-02 to 1956-02-15
Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters, and Lithographs
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 1956-03-20 to 1956-05-06
The Two Sides of the Medal: French Painting from Gérôme to Gauguin
- Detroit Institute of Arts, 1954 to 1954
By Day & By Night: Paris in the Belle Époque
- Norton Simon Museum, 2019-10-04 to 2020-03-02
Toulouse-Lautrec: The Solitude of "La Vie Moderne"
- Norton Simon Museum, 1992-01-16 to 1992-09-20
Three Centuries of French Art: Selections from The Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art and The Norton Simon Foundation_1
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- Lassaigne, Jacques, Toulouse-Lautrec, p. 127
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- The French Impressionists in Southern California: Paintings, Sculptures and Prints in Public Collections. A Guide Book and Catalogue, 1984,
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- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 46 p. 249
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