At the Moulin Rouge: Two women waltzing

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1892

Height:

93.0 cm  (36 5/8 in.)

Width:

80.0 cm  (31 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil tempera on cardboard

Description

From the Národní galerie Praha website: The painting At the Moulin-Rouge represents specific characters of the Paris nightlife at Montmartre at the end of the 19th century. The clown Cha-U-Kao is one of the women in the dancing couple; the chanson singer Jane Avril is behind her, turning her back to the spectator. Lautrec followed the tradition of French painting depicting social scenes. Unlike the realists, he was not content with the depiction of the scene, he impressed his personal experience in the paintings, identifying himself with people on the edge of society.

People as subjects

Cha-U-Kao (active 1890s) (Dancer)
Avril, Jane (1868-1943) (Musician)

Iconclass

43C921
two women dancing as a couple

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5752