Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Key facts

Full title	Emile Bernard
Artist	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Artist dates	1864 - 1901
Date made	1886
Medium and support	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	54 × 44.5 cm
Acquisition credit	On loan from Tate: Bequeathed by Arthur Jeffress 1961
Inventory number	L732
Location	Room 43
Image copyright	On loan from Tate: Bequeathed by Arthur Jeffress 1961, © 2000 Tate
Collection	Main Collection

Emile Bernard

Emile Bernard was a fellow student of Toulouse-Lautrec with a reputation for artistic audacity. He entered Cormon's atelier in Paris in 1885, but was expelled in the spring of 1886.

Bernard sat twenty times for this portrait, in which Lautrec portrays him more as a young bourgeois than a radical artist. It was probably painted in 1886, when Lautrec moved into his studio in the rue Caulaincourt, Montmartre. It was common for students to sit for each other at the time, as the practice provided convenient and free subject matter. Bernard himself drew a sketch of Lautrec.

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Emile Bernard by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 'Emile Bernard', 1886

Emile Bernard

Emile Bernard

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