Cirque Medrano

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Cirque Fernando: The Equestrienne (1888) by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec [1].

The Cirque Medrano (in English: Circus Medrano) is a French circus, located on the edge of Montmartre in Paris. It was originally called Cirque Fernando.

Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist artist, painted Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando in 1879, now in the National Gallery in London [2]. Auguste Renoir, another Impressionist artist, painted Jugglers at the Cirque Fernando [3]. In the late 19th century, the Parisian post-impressionist artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec also attended the Cirque Medrano and produced pictures based on it [4].

Past performers have included Buster Keaton together with his wife Eleanor as a double act between 1947 and 1954 [5], Annie Fratellini, and Arthur Vercoe Pedlar.