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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
France, 1864-1901
Portrait of a Girl
Oil on canvas
10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
The Aaron M. and Clara Weitzenhoffer Collection, 2000 |
In 1892, Toulouse-Lautrec received a commission
to decorate a brothel in Paris on the rue d’Amboise. For that
project, he painted imitations of eighteenth-century paneling that
was inset with eighteen medallion-shaped portraits, many in profile,
of the prostitutes available on the premises. The present painting
is one of those portraits.
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