Young Woman at a Table, 'Poudre de riz'
Currently on view
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1901), 1887
oil on canvas, 56 cm x 46 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Vincent van Gogh was a good friend of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whom he knew from the studio of the Paris artist Fernand Cormon where the two painters took lessons. Theo purchased this painting for his private collection, probably on Vincent’s recommendation. It shows a woman sitting at a table in Toulouse-Lautrec’s studio. The red pot in front of her contains perfumed rice-powder, which women applied to their faces to give themselves a fashionably pale complexion. The surface of the painting is matt and transparent – an effect that Toulouse-Lautrec achieved through the _peinture à l’essence_ technique. Blotting paper was used to remove the glossy oil from the paint, which was then diluted with turpentine. The technique was very popular among modern painters.
- Object number
- s0274V1962
- Dimensions
- 56 cm x 46 cm, 75.5 cm x 66.5 cm
- Provenance
- Sold by the artist to Theo van Gogh, Paris for FRF 150, 12 January 1888; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973, and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
- artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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