At the Circus: Acrobats

1899

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

Image Caption

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus: Acrobats, 1899, black and color chalks on white wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1429

Select Bibliography

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. Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre.. Exposition Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.. April 9-May 17, 1931.. New York: Knoedler's.. . Dec. 1931.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Eleven: Toulouse-Lautrec.. March 1, 1960.. 1960.. 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. 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. 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. 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).. Perussaux and Sauret.. Toulouse-Lautrec--The Circus--Thirty-nine Drawings in Color... Paris.. 1953.. M. G. Dortu.. Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre.. New York: Collectors' Editions.. 1971.. 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.. 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. 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.

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.