La Clownesse (Clown) Cha-U-Kao by Toulouse Lautrec Key Ring

La Clownesse (The Clown) Cha-U-Kao at the "Night Club" (1895) by Toulouse Lautrec is a vintage post impressionism art nouveau fine art portrait painting featuring "the clown" in her dressing room fastening a yellow ruffle to the bodice of her costume. She was a dancer and clown at the Nouveau Cirque and Cha-U-Kao owes her Japanese sounding name to the phonetic transcription of the French words "chahut" (the cancan) and "chaos" referring to the uproar that occurred when she came on stage. About the artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French post impressionism painter and was known as one of the greatest painters of the Post Impressionist period.