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

Madame Poupoule at her Toilet

1898
Oil on wood, 61 x 50 cm
Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi

"Woman at her Toilet" was a popular theme in 18th- and 19th-century French art, and Lautrec turned to it several times over a period of more than ten years. Unlike his predecessors, however, who usually concentrated on the charms of the women prettify themselves, Lautrec used the subject to express melancholy and loneliness.




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