1895
Oil on canvas, 77 x 55 cm
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur
Lautrec passionately admired Cha-U-Kao, a nude dancer, acrobat and clown, who pretended to be Japanese. he painted numerous pictures of her in all kinds of costumes, instigating various special fancy-dress events at the Moulin Rouge for this purpose.
