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Caudieux

Poster
1893 (Designed and made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Toulouse-Lautrec delivers a rather unflattering portrait of the café-concert artist, Caudieux, in this poster advertising the star's performance. Caudieux's talents lay as a comic and the artist has certainly made him a figure of fun here: he's shown as an ageing performer, portly and overly made up, mincing across the stage with pursed lips. Caudieux was known as the 'Human Cannon' which perhaps explains why Toulouse-Lautrec has chosen to depict him in motion.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleCaudieux (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph on paper
Brief description
Poster, 'Caudieux' by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, 1893.
Physical description
A middle-aged man wearing theatre make-up and a dinner suit with tails walks across a stage. The head of a man in the orchestra pit can be glimpsed in the lower right-hand corner.
Dimensions
  • Height: 1300mm
  • Width: 952mm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • H T Lautrec (Signed left)
  • 93. Imp. Chaix, 20 rue Bergére Paris (Encres Ch. Lorillieux et Cie)
  • HTL (Monogram lower right)
Credit line
Given by Mrs J.T. Clarke
Subjects depicted
Summary
Toulouse-Lautrec delivers a rather unflattering portrait of the café-concert artist, Caudieux, in this poster advertising the star's performance. Caudieux's talents lay as a comic and the artist has certainly made him a figure of fun here: he's shown as an ageing performer, portly and overly made up, mincing across the stage with pursed lips. Caudieux was known as the 'Human Cannon' which perhaps explains why Toulouse-Lautrec has chosen to depict him in motion.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Coutts, Howard and Claire Jones Toulouse Lautrec and the art of the French Poster. Bowes Museum, 2004. 53 p., ill. ISBN 0954818202.
  • p. 130 Phillip Dennis Cate, Saskia Oooms, Michela Niccolai, Laurent Bihl, Ricard Bru i Turull, Toulouse-Lautrec i l'esperit de Montmartre. Barcelona : Obra Social la Caixa, 2018. 274 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm. ISBN: 9788499002118
Collection
Accession number
E.224-1921

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Record createdJune 14, 2007
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