Madame Poupoule at her Toilet
by TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de, Oil on wood, 61 x 50 cm
“Woman at her Toilet” was a popular theme in 18th- and 19th-century French art, and Lautrec turned to it several times over a period of more than ten years. Unlike his predecessors, however, who usually concentrated on the charms of the women prettify themselves, Lautrec used the subject to express melancholy and loneliness.