At the Circus: `Chocolat'

1899

Medium	black and colored chalk, touches of gouache, on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 9 15/16 x 14 in. (25.3 x 35.5 cm)
Object Number	1955.1428
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus: `Chocolat', 1899, black and colored chalk, touches of gouache, on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1428

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. O'Reilly, Wenda. Van Gogh & Friends with Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Rousseau, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Birdcage Books. 2002:p 73. Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre.. Exposition Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.. April 9-May 17, 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. Milwaukee (Wisc.) Art Center.. Center Ring: The Artist (Two Centuries of Circus Art). May 7-June 28, 1981; not lent to 2 museums; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D. C. April 18-May 31, 1982. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Toulouse-Lautrec at the Clark. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. . . Le Figaro illustré, no. 145.. (April 1902).. Maurice Joyant.. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1891, peintre.. Paris: H. Floury.. 1926.. M. G. Dortu and Jacomet.. Lautrec.. 1932.. Perussaux and Sauret.. Toulouse-Lautrec--The Circus--Thirty-nine Drawings in Color... Paris.. 1953.. . "The Berkshire Trove of Toulouse-Lautrec.". Art News.. March 1960.. Daulte, François. "Des Renoir et des chevaux." Connaissance des Arts 103 (September 1960): 26–38. M. G. Dortu.. Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre.. New York: Collectors' Editions.. 1971.. Sophie Monneret.. L'Impressionnisme et son époque.. Paris: Denoël.. 1980.. Jean Sagne.. Toulouse-Lautrec au Cirque.. Paris: Flammarion.. 1991.. Götz Adriani, tr. by Anne Lemonnier, Elisabeth Kohler.. Toulouse-Lautrec.. Paris: Ed. Flammarion.. 1991.. Claire et José Frèches.. Toulouse-Lautrec: Les lumières de la nuit.. Paris: Découvertes Gallimard 132/Réunion des Musées Nationaux: Peinture.. 1991.. South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Oct. 8, 1991-Jan. 19, 1992; Grand Palais, Paris, Feb. 1-June 8, 1992. 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]; Robert Sterling Clark (1942–1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.