Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Cuirassier attaque

Details

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Cuirassier attaque
pen and black ink, brush and brown wash on paper
2½ x 4 1/8 in. (6.2 x 10.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1881

Provenance

A.J. Mackenzie Stuart, Edinburgh.
Mrs. Lublin, New York.
Janet and John E. Marqusee.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 4 July 1975, lot 158.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, New York, 1971, vol. VI, p. 924, no. S.D.10 (illustrated, p. 925).

Lot Essay

As a country aristocrat, Lautrec was attracted in his youth to equestrian subjects, and first studied in Paris under René Princeteau, a painter and family friend who specialized in paintings of horses and riders. In 1881 Lautrec depicted a solitary cuirassier (a lightly armored cavalryman with a distinctive crested and plumed helmet) on horseback in a landscape, after a painting by Princeteau (Dortu, no. P.100; private collection).

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