# At the Circus: Trained Pony and Baboon, in Post-Impressionism

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this in 1899, aged 35. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> A trained pony and a baboon perform in the ring, drawn in pastel and graphite entirely from memory.

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## The work

- Date: 1899
- Medium: Pastel and graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions: 43.9 × 26.7 cm (17 5/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.581
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec), French, 1864–1901

Toulouse-Lautrec came from an aristocratic family in Albi; after two leg fractures in his teens his legs stopped growing, and he turned to art.

8 works in the collection.

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