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Yvette Guilbert was one of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite subjects. With her tall, lanky physique and unconventional voice, she was unique among Montmartre’s café-concert and cabaret performers. She wore long black gloves and dresses with plunging necklines that emphasized her gaunt form, a characteristic that Toulouse-Lautrec seized upon in his numerous images of the singer. Here he captures her singing La Glu, a lurid song about a man and his mistress. It was precisely the contrast between Guilbert’s girlish, seemingly innocent appearance and the shocking, often raunchy lyrics of her songs that made her one of Montmartre’s biggest stars.
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Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2017.
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Created 1898
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- Driehaus Museum, Chicago~Read more about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from this article, Tragedy & Brilliance: The Life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
- Museum of Modern Art, New York~Learn more about the life and work of Toulouse-Lautrec from MOMA.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York~Read a biography of Toulouse-Lautrec from the Met.
- Musee d'Orsay, Paris~Check out this photograph of Yvette Guilbert at the Musee d'Orsay.
- Harvard Art Museums~See several other prints of Yvette Guilbert by Tolouse-Lautrec.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York~Learn more about fin de siecle Paris in the essay The Lure of Montmartre, 1880-1900 from the Met.
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General Description
Yvette Guilbert was one of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite subjects. With her tall, lanky physique and unconventional voice, she was unique among Montmartre’s café-concert and cabaret performers. She wore long black gloves and dresses with plunging necklines that emphasized her gaunt form, a characteristic that Toulouse-Lautrec seized upon in his numerous images of the singer. Here he captures her singing La Glu, a lurid song about a man and his mistress. It was precisely the contrast between Guilbert’s girlish, seemingly innocent appearance and the shocking, often raunchy lyrics of her songs that made her one of Montmartre’s biggest stars.
Excerpt from
Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2017.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Driehaus Museum, Chicago~Read more about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from this article, Tragedy & Brilliance: The Life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
- Museum of Modern Art, New York~Learn more about the life and work of Toulouse-Lautrec from MOMA.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York~Read a biography of Toulouse-Lautrec from the Met.
- Musee d'Orsay, Paris~Check out this photograph of Yvette Guilbert at the Musee d'Orsay.
- Harvard Art Museums~See several other prints of Yvette Guilbert by Tolouse-Lautrec.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York~Learn more about fin de siecle Paris in the essay The Lure of Montmartre, 1880-1900 from the Met.
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Created 1898
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Cultures
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Depicted location and place of origin: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038
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