Lithrograph of Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa's "Femme Au Tub' or 'Woman at the Tub'. The print is approx 30" x 21 1/8". The print is in a good, unused condition with a light discolored corner on the left due to age and storage. Another place of entertainment in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century was the brothel or bordello. They were regarded as a natural way of life for Parisian husbands and an accepted privilege for bachelors. Toulouse-Lautrec frequented the brothels of Paris; it is even rumored that he lived in the brothel for a time. In the Elles series of ten prints and a cover, Toulouse-Lautrec presents his prostitutes in poses that emphasize the aspects of their lives that they had in common with women outside their profession. He shows them bathing, dressing, combing their hair, and even lying exhausted across the bed. In contrast to many of the titillating images of prostitutes seen at the time in books, periodicals, and performances, Toulouse-Lautrec presents a different version of the profession in this series. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat.