The opening credits play over some of Marcel Vertès's pastiche Lautrec drawings; the photography credits are superimposed over a picture of a photographer, and the music credits over a man playing piano.
Opening credits prologue: "His palette is caked, his brushes are dry, yet the genius of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec is as fresh and alive as the day he laid them down."
"Here for a brief moment, they shall be restored to his hands, and he and his beloved city and his time shall live again."
"PARIS 1890"