It seems to me that Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s main interest in paintings is women however, the women in his paintings never look very pleasant.  After reviewing many of his paintings, every woman I’ve seen in his work has either a look of exhaustion or depression on their face.  I feel like he sympathizes with how women feel.  Women have been put up against a lot of issues in history regarding their rights and just shear respect.  I think Henri is showing his viewers his idea of women’s feelings on where they sit in society.  The painting I’m analyzing, describes a middle-aged woman, sitting by herself in a kitchen or bar.  She doesn’t have very satisfied expression on her face, she also has an entire bottle of alcohol to herself.  Henri displays the woman as one who drinks their problems away.  By the look on her face is appears she has either  just experienced a very stressful issue in her life or is exhausted from whatever she was just doing.  The color he uses in this painting is a very monotone, yellow lighting, perhaps a flickering candle on the wall.  There are some blues associated around the bottle of wine giving a darker mood to the subject.  He eyes are also squinted with a shade of blue showing that she may have no gotten much sleep.  She appears to actually be falling asleep in some sense.  Overall I feel that Henri is portraying a very unfortunate but truthful side of women and how issues they experience in their life affect them.