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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864–1901
At the Circus: The Dog Trainer
1899
Image Caption
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus: The Dog Trainer, 1899, black and color chalks over graphite, on white wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1427
Medium
black and color chalks over graphite, on white wove paper
Dimensions
14 x 9 15/16 in. (35.5 x 25.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.1427
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Maurice Joyant.. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1891, peintre.. Paris: H. Floury.. 1926.. Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre.. Exposition Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.. April 9-May 17, 1931.. M. G. Dortu and Jacomet.. Lautrec.. 1932.. Perussaux and Sauret.. Toulouse-Lautrec--The Circus--Thirty-nine Drawings in Color... Paris.. 1953.. Edouard Julien.. Toulouse-Lautrec at the Circus.. 1956.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Eleven: Toulouse-Lautrec.. March 1, 1960.. 1960.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. M. G. Dortu.. Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre.. New York: Collectors' Editions.. 1971.. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980. New York: Wildenstein & Co.. La Revue Blanche: Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.. Nov. 17-Dec. 30, 1983.. Shapiro, Barbara Stern, et al. Pleasures of Paris: Daumier to Picasso. Exhibition catalogue. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1991. Jean Sagne.. Toulouse-Lautrec au Cirque.. Paris: Flammarion.. 1991.. South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Oct. 8, 1991-Jan. 19, 1992; Grand Palais, Paris, Feb. 1-June 8, 1992. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Toulouse-Lautrec at the Clark. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Christie's. Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Watercolours and Sculpture (Part I). Auction catalogue. London, 23 June 1997. Thomson, Richard, Phillip Dennis Cate, and Mary Weaver Chapin. Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre. National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 20- June 12, 2005; The Art Institute of Chicago, July 16- October 10, 2005. National Gallery of Art, Washington and The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Princeton University Press. 2005.
Provenance
The artist, given to Joyant; Maurice Joyant, Paris, d. 1930; M. G. Dortu, Paris, by bequest (1930–1931, sold to Knoedler); [Knoedler, New York, 1931]; [Carroll Carstairs, New York, sold to Clark, 1942, as Caniches Savants]; Robert Sterling Clark (1942–1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.