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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864–1901
At the Circus: Acrobats
1899

Image Caption

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus: Acrobats, 1899, black and color chalks on white wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1429
Medium
black and color chalks on white wove paper
Dimensions
9 15/16 x 14 in. (25.3 x 35.5 cm)
Object Number
1955.1429
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View

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Alexandre, Arsène (preface). Au Cirque: Album avec 22 fac-similés de dessins. Paris: Manzi and Joyant. 1905. Maurice Joyant.. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1891, peintre.. Paris: H. Floury.. 1926.. Elizabeth Luther Cary.. "The Last of Lautrec.". Parnassus, 3: 8.. (Dec. 1931).. Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre.. Exposition Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.. April 9-May 17, 1931.. New York: Knoedler's.. . Dec. 1931.. Perussaux and Sauret.. Toulouse-Lautrec--The Circus--Thirty-nine Drawings in Color... Paris.. 1953.. 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. Worcester Art Museum.. The Graphic Art of Toulouse-Lautrec. March 25-May 23, 1971. M. G. Dortu.. Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre.. New York: Collectors' Editions.. 1971.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. 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. South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Oct. 8, 1991-Jan. 19, 1992; Grand Palais, Paris, Feb. 1-June 8, 1992. Jean Sagne.. Toulouse-Lautrec au Cirque.. Paris: Flammarion.. 1991.. Edouard Julien.. Toulouse-Lautrec.. Brussels: Bonfina Press (French and German ed.)/New York: Crown Publishers (Eng. ed.).. 1991.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Toulouse-Lautrec at the Clark. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Shigeru Kashima.. "The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec".. Geijutsu Shincho.. January 2001.. 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 Au Cirque–Voltige]; Robert Sterling Clark (1942–1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.