The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Divan Japonais
A café-concert in black, mustard and grace.
- Work
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Divan Japonais
- Artist / creator
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
- Origin & date
- Paris, 1893
- Held by
- Color lithograph, Paris, 1893
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 30x40 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
An advertisement for a fashionable Montmartre café-concert, and one of the most elegant designs Lautrec ever made. The dancer Jane Avril sits in the foreground in a sweep of black, a picture of poised boredom; behind her the critic Édouard Dujardin leans in, top hat and yellow gloves; on the distant stage a singer throws up her arms — but Lautrec crops her head clean off, so all we get is the famous long black gloves. Everything is arrangement: the black mass of the gown, the mustard ground, the economy of line. The flat colour and the hard crop come from the Japanese woodblock prints Paris was collecting, and the café itself was dressed in Japanese style. The whole seductive world of 1890s Montmartre, in three colours.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Color lithograph, Paris, 1893’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
