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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The Laundress

1888
black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground

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To create this drawing, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted a board white and then both scraped the material away in areas and drew with black ink to create a variety of tones throughout the image.

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