1898
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Front Cover is a 1898 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a man in a long coat standing by a shop window. The glass reflects buildings and signs. He holds a cane and looks down. Toulouse-Lautrec sketched Jewish people in Paris for book illustrations. He used these figures to create scenes from stories set in Poland. The man’s pose feels quiet but full of unspoken details. See this at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
At the Foot of Mount Sinai by politician and journalist Georges Clemenceau collects six short stories about the lives of Jewish characters in the Poland of his time. As he worked on the commission to illustrate the book, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec spent many hours sketching Russian and Polish Jews living in the Tournelle district in Paris, using them as inspiration for his depiction of Clemenceau’s characters, including the Jewish officer in the Russian army and the poor shopkeeper shown here. The book was written and released during France’s Dreyfus affair, a political controversy surrounding…
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Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: ), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator.
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