Yours
Shown from the lap up, a man wearing an ash-brown suit and top hat sits turned mostly away from us, next to a round table, facing a group of at least three women farther back in the room in this vertical painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible, mostly vertical strokes, and most of the forms, clothing, and objects are outlined in cobalt blue. Sitting in a wooden, ladderback chair, the man’s body takes up the bottom right quadrant of the painting. His skin is painted pale turquoise. His face turns away from us so we see the tip of his nose and the lines of his cheek and double…
Gallery mode Full size at the museum

Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.

Maxime Dethomas

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901)

1896

Medium
oil on cardboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 67.5 x 50.9 cm (26 9/16 x 20 1/16 in.) ; framed: 99.1 x 87 cm (39 x 34 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the National Gallery of Art

More by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

See all

More Post-Impressionism

See all