Perhaps the most resonant artist in Orsay! A story about Lautrec is the final part of the Orsay Museum tour.
A 142 cm tall painter who was born into a counting family but stopped growing at the age of 16 due to a fiery marriage. He was, above all, a painter who elevated advertising to fine art. He is also the one who made the Moulin Rouge a success with the Moulin Rouge poster. Moulin Rouge even made him a special seat at the front of the cabaret.
He also went into the lives of 34,000 prostitutes in Paris at the time and captured them in his paintings with compassion and affection. Maybe it’s because of the homogeneity. The artist Nabis Edouard Villar said of Lautrec: “Like a noble cut off from his relatives by his monstrous appearance, and monstrous body, he was too proud to surrender to his fate.”
