Showgirls in fishnet stockings and ruffled skirts kicking their legs to the sky flanked by musicians strumming their instruments. This is just some of the imagery captured in the artwork of French ...

Picture late 19th century Paris and a cat poster might come to mind, advertising a product that many will forget. After all, the image’s style is the important thing: clean lines, black ink. People ...

When examining the nature of contemporary culture, it becomes evident that much of the current global structure has its roots in late 19th-century France, where the ideas of marketability and mass ...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, born on November 24, 1864, in Albi, France, was a scion of an ancient aristocratic family. The son of Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa and Adèle Zoë Tapié de ...

Photo provided by Art Services International -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's 1829 color lithograph, 'Ambassadeurs, Aristide Bruant,' is part of the new exhibit opening Sept. 5 at the LSU Museum of Art.

His full name began with Henri Marie Raymond and his last name ended in Monfa. Most of us could never identify him from any of those. His commonly known last name became synonymous with a genetic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Montmartre, Moulin Rouge, Folies Bergère, absinthe, the can-can, Chat Noir, ...

The scene Lautrec stepped into was in the working-class district known as Montmartre, notorious for its thieves and brothels as well as its hangouts for avant-garde artists and literary anarchists. In ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The singer Yvette Guilbert remembered her first encounter with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in her memoir. She noted his “oily, greasy skin,” his mouth like “a large open wound,” and ...