Anklet
Arts of Africa
This portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s friend the studio photographer Paul Sescau is one of several similar paintings Lautrec made of men in his social circle. Sescau is dressed like a modern boulevardier, or fashionable man-about-town, in a jacket, crisp white collar, and top hat, leaning jauntily on a cane in a corner of the artist’s studio, with canvases stacked on the floor around him. On the wall hangs a Japanese scroll painting (kakemono) that attests to Lautrec’s interest in Japanese art and brings the imagined space of its depicted landscape into the ordinary space of a Parisian studio. The scroll, like the top hat and cane, emphasizes the elegant verticality of the composition, which Lautrec accentuated further by adding a strip of cardboard at the bottom.
When Sescau sold this painting to the critic Roger Marx, Lautrec brokered the deal and stated: “I consider it one of my best.”
When Sescau sold this painting to the critic Roger Marx, Lautrec brokered the deal and stated: “I consider it one of my best.”
MEDIUM
Rawhide, iron, fiber
DATES
before 1922
DIMENSIONS
7 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (19.1 x 6.4 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Arts of Africa
ACCESSION NUMBER
22.660
CREDIT LINE
Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Rawhide anklet, strung with iron bells.
Condition: poor.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Anklet, before 1922. Rawhide, iron, fiber, 7 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (19.1 x 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 22.660. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.22.660_front_PS5.jpg)
IMAGE
front, CUR.22.660_front_PS5.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2010
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