Tristan Bernard

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

1898, published 1920 · Drypoint · Drawings and Prints

Toulouse-Lautrec experimented with the medium of drypoint for the first time in 1898. He made nine portraits of friends using a steel needle on zinc plates. Still early in his career as a writer, Tristan Bernard, the subject of this print, managed two vélodromes, venues frequented by Lautrec in the 1890s. This plate remained in Bernard's possession and in 1920 he offered it to Löys Delteil to publish in his catalogue of Lautrec's prints. It was also included in a deluxe edition of Théodore Duret's book "Lautrec" published by Bernheim-Jeune that same year.

Artist

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Date

1898, published 1920

Medium

Drypoint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of the Estate of Sylvia Brody, 2023