Where can you see Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris?

At the Musée d'Orsay: La Toilette, Dance at the Moulin Rouge and The Moorish Dance and Jane Avril Dancing. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's most famous work in Paris?

La Toilette, of 1889, at the Musée d'Orsay. A red-haired woman seen from behind, sitting on the floor among her linen. Nothing is posed and nothing is prettified.

When and where was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec born?

On 24 November 1864, at Albi, France. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died on 9 September 1901, at Saint-André-du-Bois, France, aged about 37.

What is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec known for?

Made the posters that made the Moulin Rouge famous. Lived and worked in Montmartre. Died at thirty-six. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, of Post-Impressionism.

Painter, 1864 to 1901

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Toulouse-Lautrec had his own table at the Moulin Rouge and drew what he saw from it. The cabaret is still there, and his pictures of it are across the river at the Musée d'Orsay.

La Toilette, by Toulouse-Lautrec: a red-haired woman seen from behind, sitting on the floor. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Public domain

A photograph of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. — Paul Sescau, Public domain

Born: 1864, Albi, France
Died: 1901, Saint-André-du-Bois, France
Movement: Post-Impressionism
In Paris: 3 works in 1 museum

Where to see Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Musée d'Orsay3 works

La Toilette
1889
A red-haired woman seen from behind, sitting on the floor among her linen. Nothing is posed and nothing is prettified.
Dance at the Moulin Rouge and The Moorish Dance
1895
Two huge panels painted for the fairground booth of La Goulue, the star of the can-can, when she left the Moulin Rouge. They were cut up by a dealer and later pieced together again.
Jane Avril Dancing
about 1892
The thin, nervous dancer of the Moulin Rouge alone on the floor, one leg kicked sideways. She was his friend and his favourite model.

The life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Toulouse-Lautrec was born in 1864 into one of the oldest noble families of the south of France. Two broken legs in his teens never healed properly, and he stopped growing at about a metre and a half. He came to Paris to study painting and settled in Montmartre, where nobody stared.

He painted and drew the dancers, singers and prostitutes of the quarter with sympathy and without flattery. His poster for the Moulin Rouge in 1891 made him famous overnight. He drank heavily, and died in 1901 at the age of thirty-six.

What to know

Made the posters that made the Moulin Rouge famous
Lived and worked in Montmartre
Died at thirty-six

Born: 24 November 1864, Albi, France
Died: 9 September 1901, Saint-André-du-Bois, France

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: common questions

Where can you see Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris?: At the Musée d'Orsay: La Toilette, Dance at the Moulin Rouge and The Moorish Dance and Jane Avril Dancing. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's most famous work in Paris?: La Toilette, of 1889, at the Musée d'Orsay. A red-haired woman seen from behind, sitting on the floor among her linen. Nothing is posed and nothing is prettified.
When and where was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec born?: On 24 November 1864, at Albi, France. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died on 9 September 1901, at Saint-André-du-Bois, France, aged about 37.
What is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec known for?: Made the posters that made the Moulin Rouge famous. Lived and worked in Montmartre. Died at thirty-six. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, of Post-Impressionism.