Portrait of Jeanne Wenz

1886

Toulouse-Lautrec painted this portrait when he was only 22 years old and still an art student. He used subtle coloring with accents of pink and green and showed his subject, Jeanne Wenz, in full profile, a compositional device often found in Renaissance portraiture. Wenz was the mistress of Frederic Wenz, Toulouse-Lautrec’s fellow student at the painter Fernand Cormon’s studio.

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Artist

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

Date

1886

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

80.7 × 59.5 cm (32 × 23 1/4 in.); Framed: 106.7 × 86.4 cm (42 × 34 in.)

Origin

France

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection