Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901
Oscar Wilde and Romain Coolus—Program for Raphaël and Salomé
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-19011896
Oscar Wilde and Romain Coolus—Program for Raphaël and Salomé
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French, 1864-1901 →lithographprint
Date
1896
Medium
Lithograph on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.3 × 49.1 cm (11 15/16 × 19 3/8 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 49.8 cm (13 × 19 5/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Guy Mayer
The consummate French actress Sarah Bernhardt was slated to play the tragic lead in the premiere of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in London in 1892, but legal issues shuttered that production. It eventually appeared in its original French in Paris in 1896, while Wilde was in prison for gross indecency. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s program for a double bill of Salomé and Raphaël, by the French playwright Romain Coolus, includes cast lists as well as portraits of the two authors.
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