Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's 'The Singing Lesson' captures a moment of artistic instruction between two women, rendered in the artist's signature loose brushwork and muted tones. The painting evokes a somber yet intimate atmosphere.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's painting, titled 'The Singing Lesson (The Teacher, Mlle. Dihau, with Mme. Faveraud)', presents a scene of two women in an interior setting. The work is characterised by its loose brushwork and muted colour palette, typical of Toulouse-Lautrec's style. The composition is dominated by shades of red, black, and green, creating a somewhat somber atmosphere. The figures are not rendered with precise detail, but rather with broad strokes that capture their general form and posture. The woman at the piano is presumably Mlle. Dihau, while Mme. Faveraud stands behind her. The setting appears to be a domestic interior, suggested by the presence of lamps and what may be a bookshelf in the background. The painting's focus is on the interaction between the two women, capturing a moment of artistic instruction or collaboration. Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and caricaturist whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times.