At the Nouveau Cirque: The Dancer and the Five Stiff Shirts

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At the Nouveau Cirque: The Dancer and the Five Stiff Shirts

1892

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

This drawing is a study for a stained-glass window (now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris) that was executed by Louis Comfort Tiffany for the merchant Siegfried Bing's L'Art Nouveau gallery in 1895. It shows an elegant Parisian lady attending an 1892 performance of the Japanese-style revue Papa Chrysanthemum at the Nouveau Cirque in Paris.

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Object Details

Title:

At the Nouveau Cirque: The Dancer and the Five Stiff Shirts
Au Nouveau Cirque: La Clownesse et les cinq Plastrons

Date:

1892

Artist:

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

Medium:

Watercolor and opaque watercolor, oil paint and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 50 3/4 × 37 inches (128.9 × 94 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Purchased with the John D. McIlhenny Fund, 1939

Accession Number:

1939-8-1

Geography:

Made in Paris, France, Europe

Provenance

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