# Jardin du Paris: Jane Avril [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Lithograph in four colours \(poster\), 124 x 92 cm ## Commentary Jane Avril \(1868-1943\) was a dancer, singer and actress. Her father was an Italian nobleman, while her mother was from the demi-monde and died mentally deranged. At first she worked as a cashier at the Hippodrome, then as a horserider. Finally she was allowed to perform the quadrille with La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge. The dance made her so well-known that she was able to perform in the best venues of Paris from then on. Her greatest triumphs came in the years 1890-94 at the Jardin de Paris. and at the Folies Bergère. She still had great successes after 1900 in the French provinces and on tour in America. She spent the last ten years of her life penniless in an almshouse. Jane Avril was friendly with many artists and had a particularly close friendship with Lautrec, whose pictures she greatly admired. He gave her many of his works, all of which, however, she gave to her lovers over the years. ## Related artworks - [A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette]() - [Admiral Viaud]() - [After the Meal]() - [Alfred la Guigne]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris]() - [At the Circus: Horse and Monkes Dressage]() - [At the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue and her Sister]() - [At the Moulin Rouge or The Promenade]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()