drawing
- Museum number
- 1928,0417.9
- Description
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Portrait of Charles Conder and a female companion; figures sitting and facing one another, female figure three-quarter length and seen from behind. c.1893
Black chalk, on buff paper
- Production date
- 1893 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 619 millimetres
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Width: 554 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Label text (added 2003): This drawing and an oil-sketch in the Art Gallery in Aberdeen are the only known studies for a painting 'Fashionable People at Les Ambassadeurs' ('Aux Ambassadeurs: Gens Chic'), 1893, oil à l'essence over black chalk on wove paper, mounted on cardboard (Dortu 1971, no. 477), now in the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (1995.47.67). The scene is set in one of the fashionable cafés-concerts on the Champs-Elysées, and the couple face each other across a dining table. The model for the man was the Australian artist Charles Conder (1868-1909), who lived in Paris and then in London from 1890 onwards. Lautrec dedicated the Aberdeen oil sketch to him.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1991/2 Oct-Jan, London, Hayward Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec, no.52
1996, BM, French Drawings in the BM, (no cat.)
2012/13 Dec-April, Canberra, NG Australia, Toulouse-Lautrec
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Acquisition notes
- From the collection of Charles Conder and thence to his sister-in-law Mrs Lawson (see Dodgson's report 22 March 1928).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1928,0417.9
