His pitiless observation captures the beauty of life, and the philosophy of vice which he sometimes flaunts with a provocative ostentation nevertheless takes on, because of the forcefulness of his drawing and the seriousness of his analysis, the instructional value of a lesson in practical morality.鈥擥ustave Geffroy on Toulouse-Lautrec, La Justice, February 15, 18931(p165)2(p2)