The Laundress
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901) · 1888 · black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground
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About this picture
The Laundress is a CC0 drawing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901), dated 1888. Black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“The Laundress” (1888) uses Lautrec’s poster manner: a figure cropped close, a flat patch of color, and the room or the stage only partly shown.
About the artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) painted and printed the nightlife of Montmartre: dancers, cafés, and the Moulin Rouge. The flat color comes from the posters he designed.
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