Red-haired woman on her knees by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

As a beginning artist, Lautrec occasionally wrote for the exercise a man’s naked nature. But he was much more successful in depicting naked women. The female body of Lautrec looks heavy, real; he does not want to idealize him. As a rule, the artist did not write young beauties, but mature women with a fading beginner.

Lautrec’s female images are very intimate, and this is their main resemblance to the female images of Degas, whose work he so admired. True, unlike the impassive Degas, Lautrec depicts women with warmth and deep sympathy.

Related Paintings

The girl in the corset by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Mademoiselle Dio for the piano by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Woman at the toilet (toilet) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Young woman in gloves by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Clowness Sha-Yu-Kao by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The artist’s mother, Countess Adele de Toulouse-Lautrec at breakfast by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Maurice Jouayan by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec May Belfort by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec