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Khan Academy: Henri Toulouse Lautrec's Circus Drawings

Curated by ACT

The circus was one of the great spectacles of late-19th-century Paris, and it attracted many artists. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visited the Cirque Fernando in Paris. In this video [2:12] see how Lautrec represented ringmasters, clowns, dancers, and riders, as he and other artists, such as Seurat and Bonnard, began to portray everyday leisure and pleasures of modern life.

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