Frau im Bett
um 1893/1895
Medium
Öl auf Karton
Dimensions
38,5 x 35,5 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
3835
Art Historical Context
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s *Frau im Bett* (Woman in Bed), painted around 1893–1895, offers an intimate glimpse into the private world of Parisian nightlife that defined much of the artist’s work. A leading figure of Post-Impressionism, Lautrec was renowned for his candid portrayals of women in Montmartre’s cabarets and brothels, capturing fleeting moments with both empathy and modernity. This small-scale painting exemplifies his fascination with the quiet, unguarded hours behind the city’s glittering facade. The choice of oil on cardboard is particularly significant. Lautrec favored this unc...
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1864–1901
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (1864-1901) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose innovative poster designs revolutionized graphic art and advertising in late 19th-century Paris. Born into an aristocratic family at Albi in southern France, Toulouse-Lautrec's privileged lineage traced back to the Counts of Toulouse and extended uninterrupted to th...