At the Circus: Work in the Ring
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1899 · Charcoal, pastel, and black chalk, with stumping, touches of colored pencil, and incising, on off-white wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
At the Circus: Work in the Ring is a public-domain drawing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, dated 1899. Charcoal, pastel, and black chalk, with stumping, touches of colored pencil, and incising, on off-white wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“At the Circus: Work in the Ring” (1899) uses Lautrec’s poster manner: a figure cropped close, a flat patch of color, and the room or the stage only partly shown.
About the artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) painted and printed the nightlife of Montmartre: dancers, cafés, and the Moulin Rouge. The flat color comes from the posters he designed.
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