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Charcoal drawing of an elderly woman in a white ruffled bonnet and dark dress, head turned toward viewer, against brown paper.

Old Woman

A charcoal and chalk drawing shows an elderly woman in a white ruffled bonnet, her face turned toward the viewer and lit from one side. Dark shading models her face and dark dress, while white chalk highlights the cap and collar against the brown paper ground.

Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Date
1882
Medium
Charcoal, with black chalk, stumping, and erasing, heightened with white chalk, on brown laid paper with blue fibers
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
843 × 1150 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1882).
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, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection