A man and woman standing with their backs to us face a room where others stand or pose in this vertical painting. Though made with oil on cardboard, the paint is applied loosely with visible strokes so the painting looks more like a pastel drawing. The people have peach-colored or mint-green skin. Cut off by the left edge of the painting, the man wears a black top hat and suit. We only see the short blond hair behind one ear and the jutting cheekbone and jaw of his profile. The woman takes up almost the left half of the picture. She wears a flat, brown coat outlined in royal blue, a fur…
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Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge

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

1892

Medium
oil on cardboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 81 x 59.8 cm (31 7/8 x 23 9/16 in.) ; framed: 104.1 x 83.5 cm (41 x 32 7/8 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
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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