At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au Cirque: Écuyère)
Medium
Oil on vellum
Dimensions
Diam.: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)
Classification
musical instrument
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
204686
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1864–1901
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (1864-1901) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose innovative poster designs revolutionized graphic art and advertising in late 19th-century Paris. Born into an aristocratic family at Albi in southern France, Toulouse-Lautrec's privileged lineage traced back to the Counts of Toulouse and extended uninterrupted to th...