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The Jockey led to the start (Le Jockey se rendant au porteau)

The Jockey led to the start (Le Jockey se rendant au porteau)

Le jockey se rendant au poteau

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

1899

Medium/Technique Lithograph printed in black on wove paper, extensively reworked with blue-green and brown paints

Dimensions Sheet: 51.5 x 36.1 cm (20 1/4 x 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Helen and Alice Colburn Fund

Accession Number55.951

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Wittrock 311; Delteil 282 ii

Marks Recto: l.r.: in brown, stamp of O. Gerstenberg

InscriptionsRecto: in pencil, c.l.: Couler; in pencil, l.r.: aü

ProvenanceOtto Gerstenberg (b. 1848 - d. 1935; Lugt 2785), Berlin; 1935, by inheritance to his daughter, Margarethe Scharf (b. 1889 - d. 1961), Berlin; May 18-20, 1954, Scharf sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, lot 556, sold for DM 10,500 to Richard H. Zinser (dealer, b. 1884 - d. 1984), Forest Hills, NY; 1955, sold by Richard Zinser to the MFA for $4,500. (Accession Date: November 10, 1955)