# Moorish Dance \(Les Almées\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 285 x 307 cm ## Commentary Lautrec designed the two paintings \(Dancing at the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue and Valentin the Contortionist, and Moorish Dance\) as decorative panels for La Goulue's fairground booth. The first records her star performances with Valentin the Contortionist at the Moulin Rouge, the second announces her new fairground show. La Goulue later had to sell the two canvases to pay her debts. A greedy dealer then cut them into several pieces to get a better price. They were later bought back and, in 1929, put together and restored by the Louvre. ## 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]()