Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created the design for this lithograph in 1893 as a cover for a song sheet of a satiric monologue performed by Eugène Lemercier at the Paris cabaret Le Chat Noir. The print lampoons the president of France, Marie-François-Sadi Carnot, who suffered from the effects of liver disease. Both Lemercier and Toulouse-Lautrec connected the ills of the country with the illness of the president. In Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithograph, a doctor checks Carnot’s pulse and a nun offers him hot soup, while state business goes unattended. This rare stone was presumably made for the re-edition printed after 1901, presumably by transfer from the song sheet edition of 1893, with the text removed and the image size reduced to 235 x 177 mm. Wittrock cites only two known impressions printed from this stone: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.