We look slightly down onto a stage, at a woman who dances at the center of this square painting. The pale, white skin on her face is tinged with slate-blue shadows and heightened noticeably with pink blush at the cheekbones. She wears crimson-red lipstick and her dark brown eyebrows are peaked over blue eyes. Two flaring pink flowers, each about the size of the woman’s face, are pinned in the woman’s flame-red hair. The black bodice of her dress has puffed, elbow-length sleeves and a low-cut square neckline. The lime-green skirt flares around her dancing feet to billow up and reveal layers…
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Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric"

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

1895-1896

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 145 × 149 cm (57 1/16 × 58 11/16 in.) ; framed: 176.53 × 176.53 × 12.7 cm (69 1/2 × 69 1/2 × 5 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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