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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)
Napoléon
lithograph in colors, on wove paper, 1895, signed in pencil, printed by Ancourt, Paris, framed
Sheet: 245⁄8 x 183⁄4 in. (627 x 476 mm.)
Literature
Delteil 358; Adhémar 150; Wittrock 140; Adriani 135
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In the Summer of 1895, the art gallery of Boussod, Valadon et Cie. held a competion for a poster to advertise a biography of Napoleon by William Milligan Sloan. The winning poster was to be published in The Century Magazine in New York in 1896. Although the artist tried to give an accurate representation of the historical facts, down to the details of the uniforms, his design was rejected by the jury and Toulouse-Lautrec decided to have a special edition printed at his own expense.

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