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Toulouse-Lautrec
Portrait of Charles Maurin |
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b
Le Puy, 1 April 1856; d Grasse, 22 July 1913.
French painter and printmaker. In 1875 he won the Prix Crozatier, which
enabled him to study in Paris, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under
Jules Lefebvre in 1876–9 and also at the Académie Julian, where he
later taught. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français,
becoming a member in 1883. Among his paintings are the Prelude to
Lohengrin and Maternity (both Le Puy, Mus. Crozatier). Inspired by
the work of Japanese artists and the growing popularity of the
18th-century print, he was one of a small group of artists who
experimented with colour plates and in 1891 he patented a new
technique of colour printing. His best works are his lightly washed
grey and pink etchings of nudes, such as After the Bath, The Model
and Child with a Pink Ribbon, which show a high standard of drawing
and modelling. He also produced wood-engravings, for instance Head
of a Young Girl in a Landscape (1890), and others set in low-life
cafés and music-halls. |
