Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A diagonal line of leaping ballet dancers recedes from a starkly lit dancer partially visible at bottom left. All are broadly painted against a blue-green ground above them, pale pink below. They have obscured features and are highlighted in yellow and green. A conductor's hands emerge at bottom.

Ballet Dancers

1885/86

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

France

Oil on plaster, transferred to canvas

Painting and Sculpture of Europe