This document contains details and images of paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec featuring scenes from the Moulin Rouge in Paris in the late 1800s. It includes descriptions of Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of famous dancer La Goulue, depictions of lesbian couples at the Moulin de la Galette dance hall, and portraits of prostitutes at a brothel where Toulouse-Lautrec designed wall decorations. The text provides historical context about the Moulin Rouge and individuals featured in Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings.

2. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
Featured Paintings in Detail
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3. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin
Rouge with Two Women
1892
Oil on cardboard, 79 x 59 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

4. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin
Rouge with Two Women (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 79 x 59 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

5. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin
Rouge with Two Women (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 79 x 59 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

6. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin
Rouge with Two Women (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 79 x 59 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

7. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin
Rouge with Two Women (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 79 x 59 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

8. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin
Rouge with Two Women (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 79 x 59 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

10. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
A Corner of the Moulin de la
Galette
1892
Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

11. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
A Corner of the Moulin de la
Galette (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

12. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
A Corner of the Moulin de la
Galette (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

13. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
A Corner of the Moulin de la
Galette (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

14. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
A Corner of the Moulin de la
Galette (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

15. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
A Corner of the Moulin de la
Galette (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

16. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
A Corner of the Moulin de la
Galette (detail)
1892
Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

18. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
The Sofa
1894-95
Oil on cardboard, 63 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York

19. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
The Sofa (detail)
1894-95
Oil on cardboard, 63 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York

20. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
The Sofa (detail)
1894-95
Oil on cardboard, 63 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York

21. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
The Sofa (detail)
1894-95
Oil on cardboard, 63 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York

22. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
The Sofa (detail)
1894-95
Oil on cardboard, 63 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York

24. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
At the Moulin Rouge: Start of the
Quadrille
1892
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 80
x 61 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

25. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
At the Moulin Rouge: Start of the
Quadrille (detail)
1892
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 80
x 61 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

26. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
At the Moulin Rouge: Start of the
Quadrille (detail)
1892
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 80
x 61 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

27. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
At the Moulin Rouge: Start of the
Quadrille (detail)
1892
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 80
x 61 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

28. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
At the Moulin Rouge: Start of the
Quadrille (detail)
1892
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 80
x 61 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

29. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
At the Moulin Rouge: Start of the
Quadrille (detail)
1892
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 80
x 61 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

30. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
At the Moulin Rouge: Start of the
Quadrille (detail)
1892
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 80
x 61 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

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Paintings in Detail (1)
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32. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
At the Moulin Rouge: Start of the Quadrille
The Moulin Rouge dance hall was opened on 5 October 1889, and was the meeting place of Paris society, artists and
demi-monde. The red windmill at the entrance was a mock-up; its back consisted of various booths and a wooden
elephant that could be turned into a stage. The venue was lit up as bright as day and decorated with mirrors, galleries
and gaslights. In the middle was a large dance floor surrounded by a promenade, tables, and a garden.
Between 1890 and 1896 the Moulin Rouge inspired Lautrec to no less than thirty paintings, which give us a better picture
of the famous dance hall, its atmosphere and its clientele, than any photo-reportage could have achieved.

33. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
The Sofa
Towards the end of 1892 Lautrec was commissioned to produce decorations for the salon walls of the Rue d'Amboise brothel, and
he decided to design 16 panels in the style of Louis XV, each one centring on an oval portraits of one of the girls. It was during this
time that Lautrec had the opportunity to study their lifestyle at close quarters.
He was fascinated to discover that many of them were deeply in love with each other, and he frequently made these couples the
subjects of his paintings. He thereby succeeded in portraying the genuine depth of these lesbian relationships without exposing the
girls' tenderness and helplessness to voyeurism.
The woman half turning away in the foreground was known by the name of Gabrielle, and she modelled for Lautrec in a number of
his paintings. It is not certain whether she was a prostitute or a model, or both, and it is therefore not clear whether the scene
portrayed here was one observed by chance in a brothel, or a pose set up in the studio.
It is possible that Lautrec was simply hinting at the current fashion in the brothels for guests of both sexes to pay to watch the
lesbian love-play of the prostitutes.

34. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette
Around 1880 Montmartre became the centre for the lesbians of Paris. No one protested when two women
waltzed together, as in Lautrec's painting. Lesbians are depicted also in A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette.

35. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin Rouge with Two Women
La Goulue, actually called Louise Weber (1870-1929), was the most successful can-can dancer of her time.
She appeared at the Moulin de la Galette, the Alcazar, the Elysée-Montmartre, the Jardin de Paris, and later especially at the
Moulin Rouge, frequently with Valentin the Contortionist, her partner in the quadrille. She was given her nickname as a result of
her uncontrolled appetite (goulue = greedy).
La Goulue was from Alsace and worked as a washerwoman until she was discovered. When she became too fat and the Moulin
Rouge withdrew the quadrille, she opened her own show booth, which Lautrec decorated in 1895. After that she worked as a
flower-seller, in 1896 even as a wrestler at the Neuilly fair, and as an animal tamer. Later she lived with a man who exhibited her
as a fairground curiosity in 1925. She deteriorated even more, survived for a time as a maid in a brothel, and died lonely and
impoverished.