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Lounging Ladies
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WMET0198
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
The Sofa
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
Oil on cardboard, 24 3/4 x 31 7/8 in., ca. 1894–96
Rogers Fund, 1951 51.33.2
Lautrec set out to document the lives of prostitutes in a series of pictures executed between 1892 and 1896. At first he made sketches in brothels, but he was apparently hampered by insufficient lighting and had his models pose in his studio. He appreciated the naturalness of sitters like this lesbian couple, “who stretch themselves out on the divans…entirely without pretensions.” The candid image may take its cue from Edgar Degas’s monotypes of brothel scenes and erotic Japanese prints.
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
The Sofa
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
Oil on cardboard, 24 3/4 x 31 7/8 in., ca. 1894–96
Rogers Fund, 1951 51.33.2
Lautrec set out to document the lives of prostitutes in a series of pictures executed between 1892 and 1896. At first he made sketches in brothels, but he was apparently hampered by insufficient lighting and had his models pose in his studio. He appreciated the naturalness of sitters like this lesbian couple, “who stretch themselves out on the divans…entirely without pretensions.” The candid image may take its cue from Edgar Degas’s monotypes of brothel scenes and erotic Japanese prints.
