The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - 1892 - 85.7 x 66 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - 1892 - 85.7 x 66 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge

Oil on cardboard • 85.7 x 66 cm
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - November 24, 1864 - September 9, 1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1892

William Tom Warrener, "the Englishman" depicted in this piece, was a painter and friend of Toulouse-Lautrec. He is depicted as a top-hatted gentleman conversing with two female companions at the Moulin Rouge, the dance hall that epitomized the vibrant and tawdry nightlife of fin de siècle Paris. The women's suggestive postures—and Warrener's reddened ear, indicating his embarrassment—reveal the risqué nature of their conversation. This painting was a preparatory study for a color lithograph created in 1892.

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