Le Missionnaire Original Color Lithograph after Toulouse-Lautrec

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Le Missionnaire Le Loge au Mascaron
Original 1897 Color Lithograph		 Framed and Matted Le Missionnaire
Original Color Lithograph
Le Missionnaire - Le Loge au Mascaron Original Lithograph Framed and Matted Le Missionnaire Original Lithograph

Color lithograph on wove paper after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. A fine example in olive, red, yellow, and black.

Transcribed in 1897 from Lautrec’s 1894 work for Le Theatre Libre for the play Le Missionnaire. The image, Le Loge au Mascaron Dore (The Loge with the Gilt Mask), was published in Les Programmes Illustrees des Theatres et des Cafe-Concerts, a collection of programs for theaters and cafe concerts. This series was published in 1897 by Ernest Maindron and printed by Imprimerie Eugene Verneau in Paris. Edition Size is 1,025. Many of these have not survived in good condition like this one; many have not survived at all.

– Title: Le Missionnaire – Le Loge au Mascaron
– Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (after) (French, 1864-1901)
– Year of publication: 1897
– Image size: 8-7/8 inches H x 7-3/8 inches W (23 cm x 19 cm)
– Sheet size: 12-1/2 inches H x 9-1/2 inches W (32 cm x 24 cm)
– State with simplified text; separate from actual program cover.
– Frame size: 19-1/2 inches H x 17-1/2 inches W (49.5 cm x 44.5 cm)

Framed in elegant antiqued gold French style frame. Finished with off-white linen matting and antiqued gold filet. Set behind a UV-resistant acrylic. This printing is noted in Wolfgang Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, Volume 1, 1985, page 86.