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At the Circus: Work in the Ring

A work made of charcoal, pastel, and black chalk, with stumping, touches of colored pencil, and incising, on off-white wove paper.

At the Circus: Work in the Ring

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1899

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Palette

Parchment
49% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.9:1

Warm grey
20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1

Putty
17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1

Blue-grey
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

Iron
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1

Tan
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901
Date: 1899
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Charcoal, pastel, and black chalk, with stumping, touches of colored pencil, and incising, on off-white wove paper
Size: 21.7 × 31.6 cm (8 9/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Work and rural life
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Bensinger. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules