The somewhat more respectable females - nine portraits by Toulouse-Lautrec

 

Madame Juliette Pascal, 1887.

I don't often share the work of the GREAT artists here, and even more rarely their best-known works. But it's never too much to celebrate the genius that was Toulouse-Lautrec. So much of his work - particularly the more lurid imagery - is so iconic, that I find it easier to marvel at his remarkable talent in the less-known, quiet and intimate works.

 Portrait Study of a Woman in Profile, 1890.

La comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec [the artist's mother] au jardin, 1881.

Mademoiselle Dihau au piano, 1890.

Femme à l'ombrelle «Berthe la Sourde, assise dans le jardin de M. Forest», circa 1889.

Berthe "la Sourde" posing for the artist.

The model Hélène Vary in profile, 1888.

Hélène Vary, circa 1888.

 La comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec [the artist's mother] dans le salon du Château de Malromé, circa 1883-86.

Madame Aline Gibert, 1887.

Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec, the artist's mother, 1881.