Why it matters
Friends gather around a table in the Moulin Rouge cabaret, while the dancer May Milton's face glows in a greenish light in the foreground. Toulouse-Lautrec, a regular of Paris nightlife, included himself in the background.
Did you know?
- It was painted between 1892 and 1895.
- The red-haired woman with her back to us is the dancer Jane Avril.
- La Goulue fixes her hair in the background.
- The Moulin Rouge opened in 1889.
Based on the Wikipedia article At the Moulin Rouge (CC BY-SA 4.0).
