At the Nouveau Cirque: The Dancer and the Five Stiff Shirts
Au Nouveau Cirque: La Clownesse et les cinq Plastrons
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, 1864 - 1901
Geography:
Made in Paris, France, Europe
Date:
1892Medium:
Transparent and opaque watercolor, oil paint, graphite on dark buff wove paperDimensions:
Sheet: 50 3/4 x 37 inches (128.9 x 94 cm)Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
1939-8-1Credit Line:
Purchased with the John D. McIlhenny Fund, 1939
Made in Paris, France, Europe
Date:
1892Medium:
Transparent and opaque watercolor, oil paint, graphite on dark buff wove paperDimensions:
Sheet: 50 3/4 x 37 inches (128.9 x 94 cm)Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1939-8-1Credit Line:
Purchased with the John D. McIlhenny Fund, 1939
Label:
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.
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.
