PATRICE SCHMIDT/©RMN/MUSÉE D’ORSAY
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “Splendour and Misery: Images of Prostitution 1850-1910” is currently on view at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The exhibition focuses on Paris during the second half of the 19th century, when prostitution was omnipresent in Parisian society. Featuring a mix of paintings, drawings, sculpture and emerging media from the time such as photography and cinematography, it is on view until January 17, 2016.
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Giovanni Boldini, Party Scene at the Moulin Rouge, ca. 1889, oil on canvas.
PATRICE SCHMIDT/©MUSÉE D'ORSAY/DIST. RMN
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Medical Inspection: Blonde Housewife, 1893–94, oil on cardboard.
HERVÉ LEWANDOWSKI/©RMN/MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Henri Gervex, Rolla, 1878, oil on canvas.
PATRICE SCHMIDT/©RMN/MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863, oil on canvas.
PATRICE SCHMIDT/©RMN/MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Théophile Steinlen, La Pierreuse, 1905, oil on canvas.
TONY QUERREC/©RMN/MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In Bed, 1892, oil on cardboard pasted on wood floor.
HERVÉ LEWANDOWSKI/©RMN/MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Jean Beraud, La Madeleine at the Pharisee, 1891, oil on canvas.
HERVÉ LEWANDOWSKI/©RMN/MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Anonymous, Nude Studies, Woman Sitting Idly, between 1900–10, aristotype.
ALEXIS BRANDT/©RMN/MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Woman pulling her stockings, 1894, oil on canvas.
HERVÉ LEWANDOWSKI/©RMN/MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Jean-Louis Forain, Behind the Scenes, 1885, pencil, ink, and pen.
ADRIEN DIDIERJEAN/©RMN/MUSÉE D'ORSAY