At the Moulin Rouge

At the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

1892–95

On view — Gallery 242 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Café-concerts were popular venues for drinking and entertainment in late nineteenth-century Paris and attracted the interest of artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The Moulin Rouge, which opened in 1889, was the most famous of the café-concerts, and Toulouse-Lautrec was a habitué of the…

Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
123 × 141 cm (48 7/16 × 55 1/2 in.); Framed: 136.9 × 154.7 × 8.5 cm (53 7/8 × 60 7/8 × 3 5/16 in.)
Origin
France