Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

(French, 1864–1901)

Room Paintings holds 23 paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, from the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and The Met. They date from 1878 to 1896. We file all of them under Post-Impressionism. The most common subjects are women, men and music and dance. All of them suit a room in our lists, most often the apartment or dorm and hallway or entryway.

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Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec At the Moulin Rouge, 1892–95 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando), 1887–88 Art Institute of Chicago

The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892, oil on cardboard

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge, 1892 The Met

A scene in brown and green tones of people dancing indoors. In the foreground, three women stand near boothed tables while a man sits.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Moulin de la Galette, 1889 Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Jeanne Wenz, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1886, oil on canvas

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of Jeanne Wenz, 1886 Art Institute of Chicago

Albert (René) Grenier (1858–1925), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1887, oil on wood

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Albert (René) Grenier (1858–1925), 1887 The Met

Woman in the Garden of Monsieur Forest, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1889–91, oil on canvas

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Woman in the Garden of Monsieur Forest, 1889–91 The Met

The Streetwalker, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ca. 1890–91, oil on cardboard

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The Streetwalker, ca. 1890–91 The Met

A white dog spotted with caramel-brown and with long, floppy ears sits in a garden setting near a green park bench in this loosely painted vertical portrait.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The Artist's Dog Flèche, c. 1881 National Gallery of Art

In the center of this painting, there is a horse-drawn cart turned away from us, facing the right. In the cart is a person wearing dark blue clothing and a dark hat, and next to them is a white-and-pink bundle that could be another person.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The Trap, 1880 National Gallery of Art

At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au Cirque: Écuyère), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1888, oil on vellum

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au Cirque: Écuyère), 1888 Art Institute of Chicago

This painting shows a woman sitting upright in a yellow-and-tan reclining chair, her body turned to the right, her face turned toward us. Her skin is pale, with shades of pale yellow and light pink, and shadows in a pale green shade.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Lady with a Dog, 1891 National Gallery of Art

A diagonal line of leaping ballet dancers recedes from a starkly lit dancer partially visible at bottom left. All are broadly painted against a blue-green ground above them, pale pink below.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Ballet Dancers, 1885–86 Art Institute of Chicago

Seven people with cream-white skin crowd together, sitting at or standing among tables in an interior space in this vertical painting. The composition is dominated by shades of blue and pale green.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette, 1892 National Gallery of Art

A man and woman standing with their backs to us face a room where others stand or pose in this vertical painting.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge, 1892 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a woman sitting at a round table. She has fair skin, sharp cheekbones, thick eyebrows, and pale lips with one side of her mouth raised in a partial smile. She has short brown hair with bangs across her forehead.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec A la Bastille (Jeanne Wenz), 1888 National Gallery of Art

The Sofa, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ca. 1894–96, oil on cardboard

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The Sofa, ca. 1894–96 The Met

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Rue des Moulins, 1894, 1894 National Gallery of Art

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Hussars, 1878 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the waist up, a woman with light, peachy-yellow skin sits with her body facing us as she looks over her shoulder to our right in this loosely painted, vertical portrait.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Carmen Gaudin, 1885 National Gallery of Art

A man and two women standing near a bar nearly fill this vertical painting.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Alfred la Guigne, 1894 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a stage, at a woman who dances at the center of this square painting. The pale, white skin on her face is tinged with slate-blue shadows and heightened noticeably with pink blush at the cheekbones.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric", 1895-1896 National Gallery of Art

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.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Maxime Dethomas, 1896 National Gallery of Art

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The 23 paintings