# Reine de Joie [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Lithograph in four colours \(poster\), 136 x 93 cm ## Commentary Reine de Joie was a novel by Victor Joze, pseudonym of the Polish writer Victor Dobrski, friend and neighbour of Lautrec in the Rue Fontaine. The poster, designed for bookshop displays, is composed of two parts joined in the middle. It also served as model for the book jacket designed by Pierre Bonnard. The inspiration for the motif probably came to Lautrec from a Japanese woodcut. The antisemitically tinged novel and Lautrec's poster provoked a scandal. The scene shows Hélène Roland, heroine of the novel, at a richly-laden table, kissing the stout Olizac. Baron Rothschild, who thought he recognised himself in the figure of Baron Rosenfeld, tried in vain to have the book banned. ## Related artworks - [A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette]() - [Admiral Viaud]() - [After the Meal]() - [Alfred la Guigne]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris]() - [At the Circus: Horse and Monkes Dressage]() - [At the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue and her Sister]() - [At the Moulin Rouge or The Promenade]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()