Title

Jane Avril, c1891-92. Creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Caption

Jane Avril, c1891-92. Jane Avril, one of Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite models, was a famous cabaret performer in Paris. This portrait, however, suggests very little about the energetic dancing style that earned her the nickname La Melenite (dynamite). She appears in street clothes, wearing a plum-colored cape and an extravagant hat, peering sideways through narrowed eyes. Only the unnatural colors of her hair, skin, and lips, set against the green and indigo background, suggest the heavy makeup and harsh lighting in which she appeared on stage.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A23_308

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

74,7Mb (3,4Mb) / 13,8in x 21,0in / 4152 x 6290 (300dpi)

Keywords

portrait female women woman people hat fashion arts painting dance country French France Paris art clothes museum dancer color brown cape dress hair location century collar squinting red hair clothing concept suspicion APPAREL one person suspicious Parisian distrust distrustful redhead ginger hair art museum oil Painting Colour 19th century Museum of Art Ile-de-France 1890s nineteenth century fin de siecle Post Impressionism Post Impressionist Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionist TGN portrait oil Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa Lautrec Jane Jane Avril Avril Jeanne Beaudon Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa Henri Marie Raymond de Lautrec Henri de Toulouse Fin de siècle ladieswear Clark Art Institute art movement Heritage Art women's wear womenswear 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing Oil on laminate cardboard mounted on panel La Melenite