You must join the virtual exhibition queue when you arrive. If capacity has been reached for the day, the queue will close early. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French. Lautrec set out to document the lives of prostitutes in a series of pictures executed between and At first he made sketches in brothels, but he was apparently hampered by insufficient lighting and had his models pose in his studio.
He appreciated the naturalness of sitters like this lesbian couple, "who stretch themselves out on the divans…entirely without pretensions. Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio.
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Use your arrow keys to navigate the tabs below, and your tab key to choose an item. Title: The Sofa. Date: ca. Medium: Oil on cardboard. Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, Object Number: The Met's Libraries and Research Centers provide unparalleled resources for research and welcome an international community of students and scholars. The Met Collection API is where all makers, creators, researchers, and dreamers can connect to the most up-to-date data and public domain images for The Met collection.
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