Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001687At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au Cirque: Écuyère)
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: HTLautrec
Provenance
Gustave Pellet (1859–1919), Paris, by 1926 [Joyant 1926]; by descent to his son-in-law, Maurice Exsteens (1887–1962), Paris, by 1931 [Paris 1931 exh. cat.]. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc, New York, by 1957 [New York 2010 auc. cat.]. Mrs. Charles Sherwood Payson, New York, by 1958 [New York 2010 auc. cat.]; by descent to Anonymous [New York 2010 auc. cat.]; sold, Christie’s, New York, May 11, 1988, lot 21, to Dan Searle (1926–2007), Illinois; bequeathed to Anonymous [New York 2010 auc. cat.]; offered for sale, Christie’s, New York, May 5, 2010, lot 335, bought in., sold to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibition history
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition H. De Toulouse-Lautrec, 9 April–17 May 1931, no. 49. Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Toulouse-Lautrec, May–August 1951, no. 124 (?).
Publications
M. Joyant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, vol. I, Paris, H. Floury, 1926, p. 265. M. G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et son oeuvre, vol. II, New York, Collectors Editions, 1971, p. 150, 151, no. 316 (ill.). Charles F. Stuckey, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1979, p. 126. Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism, exh. cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981, pp. 100–01. B. Foucart and G. M. Sugana, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, Flammarion, 1986, p. 107, no 314 (ill). Gale B. Murray, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878–1891, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991, p. 144. Julia Frey, Toulouse-Lautrec, A Life, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994, p. 215. Nick Earhart, "Bohemian Rhapsody," Art Talk (Summer 2011): 36 (ill.)
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on vellum
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- musical instrument
- Style
- Post-Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Patterson/Taylor Acquisition Fund; Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Patterson Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2010.413
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