Original pencil drawing on paper. Framed with conservation materials.

Dimensions: 6 1/8" x 10 1/8"
Catalogue reference: Dortu I. 422

Just as the Paris nightlife is a common theme in Lautrec’s work, horses and carriages recur in many of his pieces. Lautrec grew up around horses and learned to appreciate their magnificence and their majestic movements. Along with Degas, Lautrec was one of the first artists to depict horses and to scholarly trace their motion on paper. Baudelaire himself wrote an essay on the artists of that time explaining that the main themes for modern painters are "Coaches, Dandies, Women and Girls, and Moral Sketches".