- Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Author: Jules Renard
- Publisher: Henri Floury
- Printer (prints): Henry Stern
- Printer (text): Charles Renaudie
Nature Stories
1899
Physical Qualities
Bound volume with transfer lithographs (including front cover), letterpress and text, Case: 347 × 250 × 27 mm. (13 11/16 × 9 13/16 × 1 1/16 in.)
Book: 323 x 232 x 15 mm. (12 11/16 x 9 1/8 x 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 316 x 225 mm. (12 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Ryda Hecht Levi Collection of Illustrated Books, Gift of Ryda H. Levi, Baltimore
Object Number
2001.447
With its antennae extended to find its way forward, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s mollusk appears to crawl across the page before our very eyes. Jules Renard writes, “At that time of year when people catch colds, the snail draws in his beanpole of a neck and stays at home, bubbling like a snotty nose.”
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2001; Mrs. Ryda H. Levi, Lutherville, Maryland; Lucien Goldschmidt, New York; Henri Saffrey, Paris; the artist
Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.
BMA, "Baltimore Collects: Illustrated Books From the Collection of Ryda and Robert H. Levi," September 6- October 16, 1988.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery 2, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
BMA, "Baltimore Collects: Illustrated Books From the Collection of Ryda and Robert H. Levi," September 6- October 16, 1988.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery 2, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: PAGE i: URQ (ink): 'a Henri Saffrey/ tres flat[illegible]/ thLautrec/ a m. Henri Saffrey/ ea -- --- admiration/ f--- l'oeuvre de Lautrec/ Jules Renard/ --- 1904'; C: 'HISTORIES NATURELLES'; LRQ: [elephant drawn in ink with THL in a circle]; PAGE ii: C: 'Edition a cent exemplaires numerotes/ No 33'; PAGE iii: 'JULES RENARD/ Histoires/ Naturelle/ Edition ornee de vingt'deux lithographies originales de/ H. de Toulouse-Lautred/ H. FLOURY, EDITEUR/ 1899'
Markings: none - none
