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Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1887–88
Provenance
Ownership history
- Joseph Oller, Paris, 1888 (bought for his café concert, Le Moulin Rouge) until 1914 [see Paris, Paul Rosenberg 1914]. Baron LaFaurie, Paris, by 1914 [see Paris, Manzi Joyant, 1914]. Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris by 1924 [see Paris 1924]. Joseph Winterbotham, Chicago, by 1924; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Possibly Brussels, Cinquieme Exposition des XX, 1888, cat. 11, as Ecquyère.
- Paris, Moulin Rouge, Exposition Permanente, beginning in 1888.
- Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Peintures et Lithographies originales de H. de Toulouse Lautrec 1864-1901, January 24-February 20, 1910, cat. 4.
- Paris, Galeries Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d’Oeuvres de Toulouse-Lautrec, January 20-February 3, 1914, p. 8 cat. 20 as Monsieur Loyal, collection de M. Oller.
- Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Exposition Rétrospective de L’Oeuvre de H. de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901, June 15-July 11, 1914, p. 12 cat. 45 as Au Cirque. – M. Loyal, collection de M. le Baron Lafaurie.
- Chicago, Art Institute, Arts Club, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, December 23, 1924-January 25, 1925, cat. 10 as Le Cirque (portrait de Monsieur Loyal).
- Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, March 6-April 6, 1929, p. 20 cat. 87, pl. 45 as The Circus.
- Chicago, Art Institute, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1930-1931, pp. 15, 57 cat. 7, (ill.) as At The Circus Fernando. The Ring-Master.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Tenth Loan Exhibition: Lautrec, Redon, February 1–March 2, 1931, pp. 6, 14 cat. 7 (ill.) as At the Circus Fernando. The Ring Master, 1888.
- Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition H. de Toulouse-Lautrec au profit de la Société des Amis du Musée d’Albi, April 9–May 17, 1931, p. 14 cat. 52 pl. 2 (ill.) as Au Cirque Fernando: L’Écuyère, around 1887.
- New York, Albright Art Gallery, 19th Century French Art in Retrospective, 1931, cat. 59.
- Toronto, Art Gallery, Exhibition, December 1932-February 1933.
Literature
Published references
- Fénéon, La Vogue, September 1889 (Fénéon 1970, I, p. 168).
- G. A[lbert] A[urier], “Choses d’art,” Mercure de France 2 (January, 1891), p. 62.
- Gustave Geffroy, “Exposition Toulouse-Lautrec,” La Justice, February 15, 1893.
- Gustave Coquiot, “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,” L’Art et les Artistes 19 (1914), p. 133 (ill.) as Le Cirque.
- Gustave Coquiot, Lautrec, ou Quinze Ans de Moeurs Parisiennes, 1885-1900 (Paris, 1921), pp. 102, 137 as L’écuyère au Cirque Fernando.
- “A Ticket for the Moulin Rouge,” International Studio 77, 34 (July 1923), p. 300 (ill.) as M. Loyal and the Cirque Fernando.
- Gustave Coquiot, Toulouse-Lautrec (Berlin, 1923), trans. by Carl Einstein, pp. 57, 60 pl. 46 (ill.) as Kunstreiterin im Zirkus Fernando.
- The Arts 7, 1 (January 1925), p. 37 (ill.) as La Piste.
- F., “A Painting by Toulouse-Lautrec,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 19, 1 (January 1925), pp. 94-95 (ill.) as The Circus.
- “Chicago Institute Buys a Striking Work by Toulouse-Lautrec,” The Art News 24, 8 (November 28, 1925), p. 4 (ill.) as The Circus.
- Achille Astre, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (Nilsson, 1925), p. 43.
- Maurice Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Peintre (Paris, 1926), vol. 1, pp. 128, 265, (ill. p. 162), vol. 2, p. 40 as Le Cirque.
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