The Laundress
Cleveland Museum of Art

The Laundress

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901) · 1888

black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

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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