La Blanchisseuse was painted by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, oil on canvas, 36 1/2 by 29 1/2 inches. It is a moody portrait of a Parisian laundress painted in 1886-87.
Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impression Ist period. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house a new record was set when 'La blanchisseuse', an early painting of a young laundress, sold for $22.4 million U.S.
He was a French painter, printmaker, illustrator and draughtsman whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times.
La Blanchisseuse by Toulouse-Lautrec
