Sujet
Elles: Woman In a Corset, 1896. Creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901).
Légende
Elles: Woman In a Corset, 1896. Like Cassatt, Toulouse-Lautrec also made a series of colour prints depicting the daily lives of women, but instead of portraying bourgeois wives and mothers, his subjects were prostitutes. His series of twelve lithographs entitled Elles boldly confronted the reality of late 19th-century Parisian brothels on the rue de Moulins and the rue de Richelieu, in which rich men's pursuit of pleasure with the daughters of the poor was legal and accepted. Although not portraits of classic beauty, his depictions of Parisian prostitutes embrace the poignancy of human experience. Here, a prostitute unhooks her corset in the presence of a client, her face sympathetically averted from the viewer's gaze.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F79_286
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
75,9Mo (5,7Mo) / 38,5cm x 49,4cm / 4550 x 5832 (300dpi)