Oil sketch of a woman with long auburn hair and a white ruffled collar, painted loosely on gray cardboard.

Mme Lili Grenier (recto); Landscape with Church (verso)

A woman with long, flowing auburn hair turns her head to the right, her face lit with warm pinks and soft reds. Loose, quick brushstrokes in oil build a ruffled white collar and muted greenish shadows against a gray-brown cardboard ground, with faint graphite sketch lines at the lower edge.

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Date: 1885/88
Medium: Oil paint, with graphite (recto), and oil paint with touches of black crayon varnished overall (verso), on gray cardboard
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 843 × 1141 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1888).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection

19th century post-impressionism 1880s portrait graphite sketch loose brushwork oil sketch toulouse-lautrec ruffled collar woman with red hair auburn hair