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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Divan, Circa 1893
Author:
Henri de Toulouse-LautrecBio:
Albi, França, 1864-Saint-André-du-Bois, França ,1901Title:
The DivanDate:
Circa 1893Medium:
Óleo com essência sobre cartãoDimensions:
54 x 69 cmCredit line:
Compra, 1958Object type:
PinturaInventory number:
MASP.00124Photography credits:
João Musa
Judging from available photos, it is almost certain that the subject was a lounge in a maison close located on rue des Moulins and regarded as one of the most luxurious in Paris. Toulouse-Lautrec, himself a frequent patron of this brothel, depicted it several times between 1891 and 1895, often with the same characters. The Couch, magnificently composed in Degas style, features three figures sunk in the immense velvet divan while a fourth character moves out of the visual field.
— Unknown authorship, 1998
Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).
