Buste de Lender-Mlle Marcelle Lender

Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi, France, 1864 - 1901)

Date1895

Mediumcolour lithograph on paper

ClassificationsPrints

DimensionsOverall: Height: 28 cm, Width: 36 cm
Frame: Height: 54.7 cm, Width: 45 cm

AcquisitionPresented in 1926 by T L Paton.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG007134

Keywords

About MeMarcelle Lender (1862-1926) was a French singer, dancer and entertainer made famous in paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Born Anne-Marie Marcelle Bastien, she began dancing at the age of sixteen and within a few years made a name for herself performing at the Théâtre des Variétés in Montmartre.

Marcelle Lender appears in several works by Lautrec but the most notable is the one of her dancing the Bolero during her February 1895 performance in the Hervé operetta Chilpéric.

Lautrec's portrait of her in full costume, her flame-red hair accentuated by two red poppies worn like plumes, boosted Lender's popularity considerably after it appeared in a Paris magazine.
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The fame of Lender (1962-1926), a French singer, dancer and entertainer, owed much to the Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of her