Jane Avril was a French can-can dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and a frequent subject of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's art. Extremely thin and "given to jerky movements and sudden contortio
Jane Avril, c. 1892, by Toulouse-Lautrec
Jane Avril, poster, 1893, by Toulouse-Lautrec
Bust of Jane Avril on a wave, 1898, by Antoine Bourdelle
Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge, 1893, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Oil on Cardboard
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the colourful and theatr
Jane Avril
…Jane Avril (9 June 1868 – 17 January 1943) was a French can-can dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and a frequent subject of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's art. Extremely thin and "given to jerky movements and sudden contortions", she was nicknamed La Mélinite, after an explosive. She was born Jeanne…
Mr. Toulouse paints Mr. Lautrec (c. 1891), a photomontage by Maurice Guibert
The Marble Polisher [wd] (1882–1887), Princeton University Art Museum, probably painted while a student of Fernand Cormon, demonstrating his classical training
La Toilette (1889), oil on board