#brothels

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Erisava Staff Jul 20

In bed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892

In bed

Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection · wikidata.org

Public domain

For a stretch in the early 1890s he more or less moved into the brothels off the Paris boulevards and painted the women there off duty rather than working — sleeping, dressing, waiting about. This is one of that run, done on cardboard rather than canvas from what I can find.

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