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1888 · Art Institute of Chicago

Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)

Henri de Toulouse-LautrecWikidata

painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Date
1888Wikidata
Art Institute of Chicago: 1887–88
Medium
Oil on canvasArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
100.3 × 161.3 cmArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: 98 × 161 cm
Gallery
Gallery 242Art Institute of Chicago
Genre
genre artWikidata
Materials
oil paint, canvasWikidata
Inventory no.
1925.523Wikidata
Credit line
Joseph Winterbotham CollectionArt Institute of Chicago

Provenance

Where it has been

  1. 1925 –
    Art Institute of Chicago
    high confidenceWikidata · collection

Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago

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. Chicago, Art Institute, Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from American Collections, June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 53 cat. 373 as In the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster, 1888. Chicago, Art Institute, Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, p. 50 cat. 328 as In the Circus Fernando: The Ring-Master, 1888. Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of 19th Century French Art, 1934, cat. 59. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, March 15-April 28, 1935, pp. 32, 75 cat. 49 (ill.) as Au Cirque Fernando, The Ringmaster, M. Loyal, 1888. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Time: An Exhibition to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art and the opening of its New Building, May-September 1939, n.p. cat. 78 (ill.) as In the Fernando Circus: the Ring Master, 1888. Detroit, Institute of Art, French Impressionism from Manet to Cézanne, May-June 1940. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting, November 4, 1950 – February 11, 1951, n.p. cat. 94 (ill.) as In the Circus Fernando. The Ringmaster, 1888. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Toulouse-Lautrec [exhibition organized in collaboration with the Albi Museum], October 29-December 11, 1955, p. 16 cat. 16 (ill.) as In the Circus Fernando: The Ring Master, 1888; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, January 2-February 15, 1956. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Drawings, Posters and Lithographs, March 20-May 6, 1956, pp. 9, 45 cat. 8 (ill.) as At the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster, 1888. Paris, Palais du Louvre, Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition, September 1964-January 15, 1965. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada/Fine Arts Gallery of the Universal and International Exposition of 1967, Terres des Hommes/Man and His World, April 28-October 27, 1967, pp. 116, 117 cat. 56 (ill.) as Au Cirque Fernando: Le Maître du Cirque/In the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster, 1888. Chicago, Art Institute, Toulouse Lautrec: Paintings, October 4-December 2, 1979, pp. 124-126, 143 cat. 32 (ill.) as Au Cirque Fernando, l’écuyere/At the Circus Fernando, the equestrienne, 1887. Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors Impressionistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980, p. 20 cat. 38 (ill.) as Au Cirque Fernando, 1888. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism, January 24-March 22, 1981, pp. 40, 334 cat. 119, pl. 28 (ill.) as At the Circus Fernando: The Horsewoman, late 1887; traveled to Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, April 9-June 14, 1981. Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 38; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988. London, Hayward Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec, October 10, 1991-January 19, 1992, cat. 62 (ill.) as Au Cirque Fernando: Ecuyère; Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, February 18-June 1, 1992. St. Louis, Art Museum, Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard, February 17-May 13, 2001, pp. 100, 102, 226 (ill.) as Equestrienne (At the Circus Fernando), 1887-1888; traveled to Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, June 8-September 2, 2001. Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Toulouse-Lautrec: Posters and Prints from the Collection of Irene and Howard Stein, March 24-June 14, 1998, p. 17 (ill.) as Ecuyère (Au Cirque Fernando), 1887. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, March 20-June 12, 2005, pp. 236, 237, 239, 245, 258 fig. 266 (ill.) as Equestrienne (At the Circus Fernando), 1887-1888; traveled to Chicago, Art Chicago, July 16-October 10, 2005. Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 60 (ill.). Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 9, 2019 – January 27, 2020, cat. 73.
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