The Laundress

1888
(French, 1864–1901)
Sheet: 75.9 x 63.1 cm (29 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Dortu D3.029
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To create this drawing, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted a board white and then both scraped the material away in areas and drew with black ink to create a variety of tones throughout the image.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced this drawing to illustrate an article about Parisian summers. It presents the type of poorly paid worker who remained in the city while others traveled to escape the urban heat. Because the image was to be reproduced in black and white, Toulouse-Lautrec thinned and brushed ink, scraping into it to expose fine white highlights. Like several artworks in Cleveland’s collection, the drawing was formerly owned by Roger Marx, a French collector, curator, and art critic who built perhaps the most substantial holdings of Toulouse-Lautrec’s work around the turn of the century.
The Laundress

The Laundress

1888

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

(French, 1864–1901)
France, 19th century

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