Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Jeanne Wenz
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)LinkedCulture matchlcp-4b458c973ce6
- Date
- 1886
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 42949
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this portrait when he was only 22 years old and still an art student. He used subtle coloring with accents of pink and green and showed his subject, Jeanne Wenz, in full profile, a compositional device often found in Renaissance portraiture. Wenz was the mistress of Frederic Wenz, Toulouse-Lautrec’s fellow student at the painter Fernand Cormon’s studio. She was also the friend of Suzanne Valadon , an artist in her own right and a frequent sitter for Toulouse-Lautrec.
The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Provenance & credit
As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Given by the artist to Arthur-Paul Huc, Toulouse [see Roqué 1999]. Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by 1912 [see Dortu 1971]. Pierre Decourcelle, Paris, by at least 1914 [lent by him to Paris 1914]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 16, 1926, no. 78, for 63,000 francs, to Jerome Stonborough [according to annotated copy of the Decourcelle sale catalogue in the library of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; copy in curatorial file]; Jerome Stonborough (died 1938), New York; his estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 17, 1940, no. 70; Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, Nov. 17, 1940 [according to the Rosenberg ledger, no. 120, Museum of Modern Art, New York, copy in curatorial file and letter of May 5, 1977, from Alexandre Rosenberg, who stated that the firm acquired the painting on 17 November, 1940, from the estate of Stonborough]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, October 3, 1941.
Linked open data
Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.
- Object type
- AAT300033618
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.