# Monsieur Boileau at the Café, in Post-Impressionism

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this in 1893, aged 29. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Cleveland’s 1925 purchase of this work by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec marked the first acquisition of one of the artist’s drawings by a museum in the United States. Its subject, Monsieur Boileau, was a gossip columnist known to drink heavily at Le Mirliton, a nightclub.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1893
- Medium: oil and tempera with charcoal on millboard
- Dimensions: Sheet: 80.3 x 65 cm (31 5/8 x 25 9/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.1409
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec), French, 1864–1901

Toulouse-Lautrec came from an aristocratic family in Albi; after two leg fractures in his teens his legs stopped growing, and he turned to art.

8 works in the collection.

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