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Reine de Joie
The supper scene, wine on the table — scandal sold as a book, painted as a poster.
What
Lautrec’s poster for the novel Reine de Joie: a courtesan leaning to kiss a stout old banker across a supper table, a wine glass and the round of a bottle set out plainly on the cloth in front of them.
Why
A book advertisement that made the whole of Paris blush — the decadent supper as its own genre, wine and all. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain lithograph at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Notice
The wine glass sits at the exact centre foot of the poster — the still, sober object under all the scandal.
“Every age has a supper it pretends not to have attended.”
Format
The full-resolution, colour-managed file — yours to print and keep. Editions ship with their certificate.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution doesn't clear our floor for a physical print, so this piece is offered as a digital download only.
Size
$39.00
Honesty
ReproductionA faithful reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.6114.
- Kind
- reproduction
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Era
- Paris, 1892
- Source
- The Art Institute of Chicago
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (source published 1930 or earlier). Cleared by open-access-registrar on 2026-07-18. The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain / open-access. isPublicDomain:true; accession 1927.6114; direct-fetch confirmed 2026-07-18.
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