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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge 1891–92. Louise Weber, nicknamed La Goulue (the glutton), is depicted in the Moulin Rouge—a Montmartre cabaret frequented by the Parisian demimonde—flanked by her sister to her right and, to her left, her lover. Toulouse-Lautrec made many paintings of Weber, a star performer known ...
References. Title: Moulin Rouge: La Goulue. Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, Albi 1864–1901 Saint-André-du-Bois) Printer: Affiches Américaines, Charles Lévy (Paris) Date: 1891. Medium: Lithograph printed in four colors; three sheets of wove paper. Dimensions: sheet: 74 13/16 x 45 7/8 in. (190 x 116.5 cm) Classifications: Prints ...
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue is a poster by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It is a colour lithograph from 1891, probably printed in about 3,000 copies, advertising the famous dancers La Goulue and "No-Bones" Valentin , and the new Paris dance hall Moulin Rouge . [1]
La Goulue ( French pronunciation: [la guly], meaning The Glutton ), was the stage name of Louise Weber (12 July 1866 – 29 January 1929), a French can-can dancer who was a star of the Moulin Rouge, a popular cabaret in the Pigalle district of Paris, near Montmartre. [1] Weber became known as La Goulue because as an adolescent, she was known ...
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Toulouse-Lautrec in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 2–September 29, 1996. Denver Art Museum. "Toulouse-Lautrec from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 5, 1999–July 4, 1999. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY. "La belle époque and Toulouse-Lautrec," June 8, 2003–September 7 ...
Louise Weber, alias La Goulue (The Glutton), got her nickname in her adolescence when she would empty customers’ glasses while dancing in cabarets. Passionate about the dance from an early age, she strutted her stuff in dance halls until Monsieur Oller decided to hire her for the Grand Quadrille. The story has it that one evening when she was ...
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In the lithograph At the Moulin Rouge, La Goulue and Her Sister (1892), La Goulue is seen inside the cabaret with her sister, surveying the scene and the men there. She is wearing a revealing gown, sports a flamboyant hairstyle, and a black ribbon around her neck. Because of her eccentric appearance, Lautrec often presented La Goulue with her ...
