# Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando), in Post-Impressionism

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this in 1887–88, aged about 23. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> This work, set at a circus, captures the tense moment in which a female trick rider prepares to stand up on her horse and leap through a paper hoop held by a clown.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1887–88
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 100.3 × 161.3 cm (39 1/2 × 63 1/2 in.); Framed: 123.2 × 181 × 8.3 cm (48 1/2 × 71 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.523
- 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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