Portrait of Monsieur Delaporte in the Jardin de Paris
About this artwork
This oil on canvas portrait depicts Monsieur Delaporte, a prominent figure in Parisian café-concert circles, captured in a moment of leisure at the Jardin de Paris. The work is held in the collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a regular frequenter of Parisian cabarets and often captured the colorful, sometimes gritty, life of Montmartre's nightlife. Monsieur Delaporte, the subject of this piece, was a frequent visitor to the Jardin de Paris, and Lautrec's depiction emphasizes the social hierarchy and performative nature of bourgeois men in these settings.
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Portrait of Monsieur Delaporte in the Jardin de Paris
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893
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