Here is what appears to be an example of the décor for act 5:

https://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/469432128.jpg

Described thus:

Artwork : Decor Indien Pour Le Chariot De Terre Cuite, Maquette De Decor Pour Le Theatre De Loeuvre

Size: 76.7 x 108.5 cm

Medium : Oil and gasoline paint on isorel

Creation Year: 1894

Category : Painting

Provenance : Lugne-Poe, Paris (acquis aupres de l'artiste); Dr. Perles, France; C. Henry Kleemann; Ludwig Charell, New York; Sylvester W. Labrot, Floride (avant 1971); Acquis par le proprietaire actuel dans les annees 2000

Exhibition History : Paris, Musee des arts decoratifs, Exposition H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, avril-mai 1931, p. 61, no. 189 (titre 'Decor avec des elephants'; erronément decrit comme pastel); Arezzo, Museo Civico d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Da Picasso a Botero: capolavori dell'Arte del Novecento da una collezione privata, mars-juin 2004 (illustre en couleurs); Paris, Musee d'Orsay, Le theatre de l'OEuvre, 1893- 1900, naissance du theatre moderne, avril-juillet 2005, p. 145, no. 218 (illustre en couleurs, p. 33; erronement decrit comme huile sur carton); Lugano, Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Sulle vie dell'illuminazione, Il mito dell'India nella cultura occidentale, 1808-2017, septembre 2017-janvier 2018, p. 178-179 (illustre en couleurs)

He also illustrated a book edition of the play:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQu1qPbznZ7iMzwwh8Na69UM6VRuCrVBCqe0nzBYYIpMU50HXaPFw&s

https://www.edition-originale.com/en/literature/first-and-precious-books/barrucand-le-chariot-de-terre-cuite-1895-49119

Best,

Tim

Timothy Lubin

Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law

Chair of the Department of Religion

204 Tucker Hall

Washington and Lee University

Lexington, Virginia 24450

https://lubin.academic.wlu.edu/

http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=930949

From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of INDOLOGY <INDOLOGY@list.indology.info>
Reply-To: "mkapstei@UCHICAGO.EDU" <mkapstei@uchicago.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 8:39 AM
To: INDOLOGY <INDOLOGY@list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit drama in La Belle Époque

Dear Indologists,

You may find this to be amusing.

Visiting the huge exhibition of the works of Toulouse-Lautrec currently on view at the Grand Palais in Paris, I was surprised to find, amidst his many posters for theater and cabaret, the one I include here, for a production of the

Mṛcchakaṭikā, - the title is even given in devanagari at lower right. If you read carefully, you'll see that TL himself is credited with the sets for the fifth act, though I do not know if any trace of these survives, or if it was photographed. They must have been wonderful!

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago