Caudieux
Poster
1893 (Designed and made)
1893 (Designed and made)
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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 shown him 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
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| Title | Caudieux (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| 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. |
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| Object history | Transferred from the British Museum. |
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| 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 shown him 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. |
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| Other number | 1929-6-11-73 - British Museum number |
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| Accession number | E.706-2000 |
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| Record created | April 22, 2003 |
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