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| Keywords: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - At the Circus - Free Horses - Walters 372523.jpg This drawing is one of 39 sheets the artist made in the spring of 1899 while he was in a mental hospital in Neuilly being treated for alcoholism While it is popularly held that the series was done entirely from memory as a demonstration that Toulouse-Lautrec had regained his mental faculties Perussaux suggested that the artist may very well have been allowed out of the hospital with a companion to visit the Molier circus which is known to have been held nearby during his stay there New York 1953 2 This theory is supported by the conspicuous absence from some of the drawings of an audience suggesting that the artist may have been sketching during rehearsals All of his earlier depictions of the circus e g In the Cirque Fernando The Ringmaster 1888 The Art Institute of Chicago show spectators; indeed the artist's examination of spectatorship as a bourgeois activity at the theater café-concerts or dance halls is a hallmark of modernity 1899 black and colored crayon on cream thick heavily textured wove paper cm 25 4 35 56 accession number 37 2523 22278 Maurice Joyant Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Knoedler 1931 date and mode of acquisition unknown Sara D Redmond Oyster Bay date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Mrs Sara D Redmond 1975 TL in black crayon upper right; TL estate stamp in red lower right; partial watermark AN 18 and B could be J Whatman Turkey Mill The Essence of Line A Connoisseur's Portfolio French Masterworks on Paper The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1992 French Master Drawings The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1997-1998 A Circus Family Picasso to LĂ©ger Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 2009 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Essence of Line Late works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec au cirque free horses Drawings in the Walters Art Museum CafĂ©-concerts Ringmasters circus | ||||
