TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
(b. 1864, Albi, d. 1901, Château Malromé, Langon)

Mademoiselle Marie Dihau at the Piano

1890
Oil on cardboard, 68 x 49 cm
Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi

Marie Dihau, the sister of Désiré Dihau, bassoonist at the Opera, was a successful singer at the Paris Opera in the 1870s. Later she gave piano and singing lessons.

Marie Dihau gave all the paintings that Lautrec painted of her and other members of her family to the city of Albi in exchange for a life pension.




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