Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Portrait d'une fille de la maison de la rue d'Amboise, 1892, oil on canvas, 28.5x24 cm Provenance: Alexandre Farra Collection, Henry Lapauze Collection, Madame Pomaret Collection, Ader, Paris, Tableaux modernes..., Galerie Charpentier, 1 December 1959, lot 91, pl. XXXIII, ill., Monsieur Urban Collection, acquired in 1959, Pascal Robaglia, Private Collection, Switzerland, (acquired from previous provenance), 15 January 1997 Exhibition: Toulouse-Lautrec, trentenaire, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 1931, no. 85 Bibliography: Gustave Coquiot, Lautrec, éd. Blaizot, 1913, p. 90, Gustave Coquiot, L'Art et les Artistes, no. 110, éd. Armand Dayot, 1914, p. I30, ill., Maurice Joyant, Lautrec I, H. Floury, Paris, 1926, p. 159 et 283, p. 159, ill, Maurice Joyant, Lautrec II, H. Floury, Paris, 1927, p. 40-42, Jacques Lassaigne, Le goût de notre temps - Lautrec, ed. Skira, 1953, p. 71, Henri Perruchot, La vie de Toulouse-Lautrec, ed. Hachette, 1958, p. 192, Madeleine Grillaert Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son Œuvre, Tome II, Collectors ed, New York, 1971, p. 272-273, no. P.446, ill. b/w, Tout l'Œuvre peint de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, Flammarion, 1986, p. 114, no. 419, not ill. Restorations Old labels on reverse The dimensions given differ slightly from those in the catalogue raisonné and the Flammarion, as they were taken at a different measuring point. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) - Portrait of a Girl from the House on the Rue d'Amboise This decorative medallion, made in 1892, is one of a set of sixteen female portraits commissioned from Toulouse-Lautrec to decorate the salon of a brothel at 8, rue d'Amboise in Paris. These works, set in rococo frames decorated with garlands of flowers, reflect the intimate yet theatrical atmosphere of the brothels that Lautrec frequented so assiduously at the time. This singular commission in his career testifies to the rare alliance between incisive observational painting and a decorative sensibility influenced by Madeleine Lemaire and Ernest Duez.