Woman at the Tub, 1896, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, 1864¡V1901, 15 3/8 x 20 in. (39.05 x 50.8 cm) (image)23 5/8 ¡Ñ 29 5/8 in. (60.01 ¡Ñ 75.25 cm) (outer frame), Red chalk, France, 19th Century, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec spent a great deal of time in the brothels of Paris, a marginalized realm where he felt at home. He sometimes rented rooms for stretches of a month in an effort to understand the real lives of prostitutes and present their ordinary humanity in his art, without guile or glamour or pretense.