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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Opera 'Messalina' at Bordeaux (Messaline descend l'escalier bordé de figurants)1900-1901

On view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1
Oil painting with four theatrical figures in red and green costumes on a stage-like space, rendered in loose, expressive brushwork

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Opera 'Messalina' at Bordeaux (Messaline descend l'escalier bordé de figurants), 1900-1901, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
France, also active Austria, 1864-1901
Title
The Opera 'Messalina' at Bordeaux (Messaline descend l'escalier bordé de figurants)
Place Made
France
Date Made
1900-1901
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 39 × 28 1/2 in. (99.06 × 72.39 cm) Frame: 49 × 38 × 3 in. (124.46 × 96.52 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection
Accession Number
M.46.8.3
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. West Germany: Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Valentiner, William Reinhold. The Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection of French Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1950.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Omaggio A Capodimonte. Napoli: Electa Napoli, 2007.
  • Benesch, Evelyn, and Ingried Brugger, eds. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Der Weg in die Moderne. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2014.
  • Seldis, Henry J. "West Coast Milestone." Art in America 53, no.2 (1965): 92-109.
  • Guégan, Stéphane, editor. Toulouse-Lautrec: Résolument Moderne. Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 2019.