The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1892 · Oil on cardboard · European Paintings
William Tom Warrener, an English painter and friend of Lautrec’s, appears as a top-hatted gentleman chatting up two female companions at the Moulin Rouge, the dance hall that epitomized the colorful and tawdry nightlife of fin-de-siècle Paris. The women’s suggestive attitudes—and Warrener’s ear, reddened in embarrassment—indicate the risqué nature of their conversation. This painting served as a preparatory study for a color lithograph of 1892.
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
