Singing and dancing on the streets of Paris with Toulouse Lautrec's Jane Avril and Aristide Bruant tote bag. Henrie de Toulouse Lautrec Jane Avril,1899 © Moskau, Puschkin-Museum, Aristide Bruant in his Cabaret, 1893 © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec observed and documented the personalities and facets of Parisian nightlife and the French world of entertainment in the 1890s. His use of free-flowing, expressive line, often becoming pure arabesque, resulted in highly rhythmical compositions.