# Monsieur Henri Fourcade at the Opera Ball [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on cardboard, 77 x 62 cm ## Commentary It is striking that Lautrec chose to portray the banker Henri Fourcade at a Paris ball of all places, where it is not immediately obvious what the subject's position in public life was. For Lautrec, to paint the banker behind his desk would have meant to show only what was already known about the man: namely that he was a banker. By contrast, the man portrayed at the Opera ball, who is standing significantly forward from the other people in the picture, stimulates the attention, interest and imagination of the viewer. The man with top hat in the background is Gabriel Tapié de Céleyran, Lautrec's cousin. ## Related artworks - [A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette]() - [Admiral Viaud]() - [After the Meal]() - [Alfred la Guigne]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris]() - [At the Circus: Horse and Monkes Dressage]() - [At the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue and her Sister]() - [At the Moulin Rouge or The Promenade]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()