The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge 1892 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French William Tom Warrener, an English painter and friend of Lautrec’s, appears as a top-hatted gentleman chatting up two female companions at the Moulin Rouge, the dance hall that epitomized the colorful and tawdry nightlife of fin-de-siècle Paris. The women’s suggestive attitudes—and Warrener’s ear, reddened in embarrassment—indicate the risqué nature of their conversation. This painting served as a preparatory study for a color lithograph of The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–
The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge 1892 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French William Tom Warrener, an English painter and friend of Lautrec’s, appears as a top-hatted gentleman chatting up two female companions at the Moulin Rouge, the dance hall that epitomized the colorful and tawdry nightlife of fin-de-siècle Paris. The women’s suggestive attitudes—and Warrener’s ear, reddened in embarrassment—indicate the risqué nature of their conversation. This painting served as a preparatory study for a color lithograph of The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge 437835
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