TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
(b. 1864, Albi, d. 1901, Château Malromé, Langon)

Monsieur Boileau

1893
Oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm
Museum of Art, Cleveland

Lautrec's paintings of men represent excellent dancers, old gentlemen or young pimps, and men waiting for their girls. The women flutter round them, and the silhouettes of these men, all occupying the foreground, take on a bas-relief quality. All of them are Lautrec's friend.