Ducarre aux Ambassadeurs (Ducarre at the Ambassadeurs)
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, 1864 - 1901
1893
Lithograph on wove paper
550
Sight: 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm)
Sight: 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.958.223
Portfolio / Series Title
Le Café Concert (The Cafe-Concert)
Printer
Imprimerie Edward Ancourt
Publisher
L'Estampe Originale, Paris, France
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Monogrammed, on stone, lower right: HTL
Label
Two men share a table in this café scene, though the second man’s face remains obscured, marked only by a black top hat. Their attention is directed to the right, while two drinks on the table confirm their shared presence. The man in the background is a waiter. The merging of forms in this black lithograph adds to its ambiguity. This composition captures the shifting nature of social spaces in late 19th-century Paris with the rise of café culture, embodying the strange, surface-level connections that increasingly defined the urban experience through the 20th century and into the 21st.
From the 2025 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 127, Separation Perfected, curated by Dominic Folkes ’25, Mellon Special Project Intern
Exhibition History
19th Century French Prints, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 3-23, 1973.
A Space for Dialogue 127, Separation Perfected, Dominic Folkes ’25, Mellon Special Project Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Visions of Modernity: Nineteenth-Century European Art from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 21, 1998.
Provenance
Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1958.
Catalogue Raisonne
L. Delteil, Le Peintre-graveur illustre, vol. 11, no. 36; G. Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrece: The Complete Graphic Work, London, 1988, no. 24.
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