拍品专文
Lautrec met the famed singer, Yvette Guilbert, in 1894. She was a favorite subject for the artist in subsequent years, sitting for him for numerous drawings. Guilbert commissioned this plaque from Lautrec as the top for a small tea table. He sent the design to the potter Emile Muller in Ivry to produce a ceramic tile. Lautrec hand-colored each plaque himself before it was fired and no two examples are identical. When he submitted the design to Yvette Guilbert, she added the humourous inscription which appears in the lower left corner.