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Portrait of Jeanne Wenz

A work made of oil on canvas.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of oil on canvas.

Date:

1886

Artist:

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901

About this artwork

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this portrait when he was only 22 years old and still an art student. He used subtle coloring with accents of pink and green and showed his subject, Jeanne Wenz, in full profile, a compositional device often found in Renaissance portraiture. Wenz was the mistress of Frederic Wenz, Toulouse-Lautrec’s fellow student at the painter Fernand Cormon’s studio. She was also the friend of Suzanne Valadon, an artist in her own right and a frequent sitter for Toulouse-Lautrec.

Status

On View, Gallery 242

Department

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Title

Portrait of Jeanne Wenz

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1886

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower right: HTLautrec

Dimensions

80.7 × 59.5 cm (32 × 23 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1941.824

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