To distract Lautrec from the alcohol, one day his friends will push Lautrec to visit a fashion house, where he fell immediately in love with a young woman with red hair, and asked her to pose. According to his friendly Maurice Joyant: it is Louise Blouet, nicknamed Miss Le Margouin, milliner in slang.

Louise Blouet

Le Chat Noir
Nudes by Lautrec
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