THE LOST BAR

Click to deep-zoom

← The Café-Concert

The Irish and American Bar, Rue Royale, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896

Top hats at the bar on the rue Royale.

What

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's lithograph The Irish and American Bar, Rue Royale, 1896; Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1925.1201.

Why

Lautrec drank at this bar near the Madeleine, and drew its barman and its customers.

Notice

A heavy-faced barman pours behind the counter, two men in top hats stand in front of him, and a pink spray of flowers fills the lower left.

“A Paris bar with an English name, drawn by its best-known regular.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 27x41" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished
Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Country
France
Format
Other
Piece published
The Irish and American Bar, Rue Royale, 1896
Source
Cleveland Museum of Art · 1925.1201
View the public source record ↗

Scan: The Cleveland Museum of Art; CC0 Open Access.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Dated 1896 by the museum; maker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901); the Cleveland Open Access record reads CC0. Served from the house's own store, cropped.

This brand was no longer in the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.

A house of the Provenance family