Lautrec based this painting on a staged photograph in which his friend Maurice Guibert played the role of a sleazy low-life type in the company of an unidentified woman. The practice of deriving paintings from photographs
was one that Lautrec embraced starting in the 1880s. The painting’s title comes from "Un miché à la mie," 19th-century slang for a client who neglects to pay a prostitute for her services. Might this play on words
have a bearing on the enigmatic relationship between these two figures?
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