Signatures of Lautrec

A monogram is a graphic element composed of an initial letter or a reunion of letters from a name. The letters can be at times intertwined or ornementated.

The use of a monogram comes as far a Antiquity. Under the Reign of Mérovingins, Capétiens and Carolingiens, it stood for a royal signature.

Under Rennaissance, a monogram was noticeably used by book editors, it camed back to fashion at the end of the 19th Century under Japanese influence.

Several contemporary monograms became logos and benificiated from a indeniable notoriety.

Different signatures of Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa monograms

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa signature

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec monogram with numbers or dates below

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa signature

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa signature

Signed Treclau anagram

Lautrec signing Monfa

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec besides using his well known monogram also used anagrams such as Treclau or Tolav-Segroeg or used more simply Monfa, a part of his full noble name Marie Henri Raymond de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa.

Lautrec signing Monfa

Please follow on below... two oil paintings looking for an expert.

Even if this blog as the name of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa, the oil paintings below are not authenticated.

These two paintings were bought from a Parisian Antiques shop.

The paintings are oils on wood dating of late 1800's early 1900's

Unfortunately not authenticated. They are not from a descriptive catalogue.

These two oils paintings are looking for an expert !

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Henri de Toulouse Lautrec or not ?

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec or not ?

Signatures of Lautrec