Yvette Guilbert
The singer Yvette Guilbert in profile in long gloves, beside a text introducing her: the cover page of Toulouse-Lautrec's first Guilbert album of 1894. Full commentary ↓
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Yvette Guilbert is a print by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1894) in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It measures 40.6 × 38.4 cm.
In the pictureFrench text fills most of the left side, and on the right a woman drawn in black line stands in profile. Her upswept hair, long gloves and close-fitting long dress are captured in a few strokes, and above, the title "Yvette Guilbert" is written in large letters.
BackgroundThe first Yvette Guilbert album, published in Paris in 1894, paired a text by the critic Gustave Geffroy with sixteen lithographs by Lautrec. Seen side by side with the front page of the 1898 London album on this site, it shows how differently Lautrec drew the same singer within a few years. Placing text and image on the same page was a fashion in fine print albums of the time.
Puzzle tipThe pieces divide into lettering, figure and blank paper. Fit the figure's black lines and the title lettering first, and place the pieces of body text top to bottom by their line spacing. Fill in the blank pieces from the edges. 48 pieces is a good fit.
- Artist
- French, Albi 1864–1901 Saint-André-du-Bois
- Classification
- Prints
- Medium
- Album with lithographed cover on Japan paper and sixteen crayon lithographs printed in olive green on laid paper; only state
- Dimensions
- 40.6 × 38.4 cm
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1918
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
Stories about this work
- Yvette Guilbert, Drawn Twice by Toulouse-Lautrec Four Years Apart
The 1894 Paris edition puts text and image on one page; the 1898 London edition keeps only a few lines. Lautrec's restraint, seen through two versions of the same singer.
- Puzzle Tips for Degas and Lautrec Drawings, Down to the Paper Color
Pastel on gray-green paper, a lithograph printed in olive ink. How do you solve puzzles of drawings and prints that have almost no color?
