WITH text added, this design was used to publicize the novel Le Tocsin (The Alarm Bell) by Jules de Gastyne. The work was published in serial form in the Toulouse newspaper La Dépêche, for which Lautrec had already designed Les Drames de Toulouse.

Sometimes called La Châtelaine (The Lady of the Manor), it evokes an eerie moonlit atmosphere through which a woman walks as if in a trance. A bell just beneath the moon, the deep forest, and ghostly dog complete a scene of mystery.

This impression is from a small number pulled before the text was added.

La Tocsin
1895; Desloge 98; W P19a; D 357
Lithograph in two colors. 22 5/16 x 17 13/16 inches.
Artist's monogram, lower left.
Gift of the Baldwin M. Baldwin Foundation, 1987:57