23. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(1864-1901)

Carnot Malade!

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Toulouse-Lautrec, Carnot Malade!

Carnot Malade!

Lithograph, with stencil coloring, 1893, 272 x 175 mm., Delteil 25, Adhèmar 24, Wittrock 11. A fine impression of the first song sheet edition (1893), with the full text and the double sheet including the words of the monologue and the catalog, and with stencil coloring, on a folded sheet of wove paper. The full image is on the front half-sheet; there is a pale line of staining around the old mat opening. The monologue is by Eugène Lemercier, who interpreted it at the Chat Noir café. Carnot was, until assassinated by an Italian anarchist in 1894, the atypically able President of the French Republic, hence the fear of his being sick. The lithograph was issued both black and colored.