A man and two women standing near a bar nearly fill this vertical painting. Though made with oil on cardboard, the paint is applied in thin strokes, so parts of the painting look more like a drawing, and the tan of the cardboard is visible in many areas. Shown from the thighs up at the center of the composition, the man stands with his back to us, looking away from us to our left, almost in profile. The camel-brown of the cardboard acts as the color of his jacket and the skin of his face, which are otherwise delineated with cobalt-blue and violet-purple lines. He wears a dark bowler hat, and…
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Alfred la Guigne

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

1894

Medium
oil on cardboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 65.6 x 50.4 cm (25 13/16 x 19 13/16 in.) ; framed: 91.4 x 76.2 cm (36 x 30 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

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