Henri de Toulouse Lautrec - At the Moulin Rouge - The Clowness Cha-U-Kao

 The Clowness Cha-U-Kao

 

 

When the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to produce a series of posters. His mother had left Paris and, though Henri had a regular income from his family, making posters offered him a living of his own. Other artists looked down on the work, but Henri was so aristocratic he did not care. The cabaret reserved a seat for him and displayed his paintings. Among the well-known works that he painted for the Moulin Rouge and other Parisian nightclubs are depictions of the dancer Louise Weber, known as the outrageous "The Glutton" who created the "French Can-Can".