图卢兹-劳特累克，石墨粉彩画，1899年，大都会博物馆藏，35x25cm
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, life of those times.
亨利-德-图卢兹-劳特累克 (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec) 是一位法国画家、版画家、制图员和插画家，他沉浸在19世纪后期巴黎丰富多彩的戏剧生活中，这使他能够创作出一系列诱人、优雅和挑逗性的图像，展示了那个时代的现代生活，有时是颓废的生活。
The grand master of urban entertainments made many paintings and drawings on the circus theme in the late 1880s and 1890s. He was personally drawn to circus performers—those colorful equestrians, animal trainers, clowns, and acrobats on society's fringes. It was while undergoing treatment for alcoholism at a sanitarium on the outskirts of Paris in 1899 that Lautrec produced an ambitious group of crayon and chalk drawings of circus figures. These imaginative sketches were drawn entirely from memory, without recourse to preliminary studies. The Lehman horse and rider perform the pas espagnol, the ambling gait formalized by the Spanish Riding School of Vienna. It was thanks to these circus drawings that Lautrec earned his release from the sanitarium; their impressive handling convinced doctors of his improving health. As Lautrec left the clinic, he is said to have remarked, "I've bought my release with my drawings."
这位城市娱乐大师在19世纪80年代末和90年代创作了许多关于马戏团主题的绘画。他被马戏团的表演者吸引——那些处于社会边缘的色彩缤纷的骑手，驯兽师，小丑和杂技演员。1899年，劳特累克在巴黎郊区的一家疗养院接受酒瘾治疗时，创作了一批雄心勃勃的马戏团人物蜡笔和粉笔画。这些富有想像力的素描没有进行前期的研究,完全是凭印象画出的。画中马和骑手正在表演“西班牙慢步”，这是一种由维也纳西班牙骑术学校正式确定的缓慢步态。正是这些马戏团的画使得劳特累克可以从疗养院离开；这些令人印象深刻的绘画让医生们相信他的健康状况有所改善。当劳特累克离开诊所时，他说：“我用我的画换来了自由。”
We present today's painting thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. :)
感谢大都会艺术博物馆与我们分享今天的画作。:)
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