Toulouse-Lautrec:
La Revue blanche
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THE model for this ice-skating beauty was Misia, the young wife of Thadée Natanson, who was one of the proprietors of the Revue blanche. She played resident muse to the group of progressive artists and intellectuals centered on the journal, and her portrait was drawn and painted many times by Lautrec, Vuillard, Bonnard, and Renoir.

Vuillard was in love with her, Lautrec infatuated. Verlaine and Mallarmé wrote poems to her. Like Lautrec, Misia was aristocratic, impetuous, and free from bourgeois social concerns. He called her L'Alouette (the lark). The poster was commissioned as a promotion for the journal, through which Misia and her husband became the social center of Paris.

La Revue blanche
1895; Desloge 94; W P16c; D 355
Lithograph in four colors. 39 3/8 x 35 inches.
Printed across two sheets of paper.
Artist's monogram lower left. Text by the artist.
Gift of the Baldwin M. Baldwin Foundation, 1987:65

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