This painting shows a woman sitting at a round table. She has fair skin, sharp cheekbones, thick eyebrows, and pale lips with one side of her mouth raised in a partial smile. She has short brown hair with bangs across her forehead. She is wearing a black dress with a high collar, a pale yellow bow around her neck, and a white apron over her lap. In her hand, she holds a small, translucent glass that rests on the table. The background is a blurred blend of earthy tones, including brown, gray, and dark green, which suggest a wall behind her. The brushstrokes in the painting are thick and visible.

A la Bastille (Jeanne Wenz)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

This painting shows a woman sitting at a round table. She has fair skin, sharp cheekbones, thick eyebrows, and pale lips with one side of her mouth raised in a partial smile. She has short brown hair with bangs across her forehead. She is wearing a black dress with a high collar, a pale yellow bow around her neck, and a white apron over her lap. In her hand, she holds a small, translucent glass that rests on the table. The background is a blurred blend of earthy tones, including brown, gray, and dark green, which suggest a wall behind her. The brushstrokes in the painting are thick and visible.

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Details
Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Date
1888
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 72.5 x 49.5 cm (28 9/16 x 19 1/2 in.) framed: 96.5 x 73.7 x 7 cm (38 x 29 x 2 3/4 in.)
Department
CF
Holding institution
National Gallery of Art
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Image provider
national-gallery-of-art
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Art Genome Taxonomy

7 tags

Subject Matter

  • Individual Portrait Both · 99%

    The image presents a single seated sitter as the clear subject, and the catalog title identifies her as Jeanne Wenz.

  • Interiors Both · 78%

    The woman is seated at a table before a wall-like, nonspecific background; the catalog description also identifies the setting as a blurred blend suggesting a wall behind her.

Visual Qualities

  • Dark Colors Visual · 95%

    The composition is dominated by dark brown, gray-green, ocher, and near-black passages, with relatively limited light accents.

  • Earth Tones Visual · 93%

    The painting uses a predominantly muted palette of browns, ochers, gray-greens, and related earthy hues.

Medium and Techniques

  • Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

    The canonical medium is oil on canvas, and the work is classified as a painting.

  • Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 95%

    Broad, visible, directional brushstrokes are evident throughout the background, clothing, apron, and tabletop.

Time Periods

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The catalog dates the work to 1888, placing it within nineteenth-century art.

Source & rights

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. A la Bastille (Jeanne Wenz). Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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