Charles Crupelandt (23 October 1886, Wattrelos, Nord - 18 February 1955, Roubaix) was a French professional road bicycle racer.
In 1912 Charles Crupelandt became the subject of a painting by the Cubist artist and theorist Jean Metzinger.
Au Vélodrome, also known as At the Cycle-Race Track and Le cycliste, illustrates the final meters of the Paris–Roubaix race and portrays its 1912 winner.
[1] Metzinger's painting was the first in Modernist art to represent a specific sporting event and its champion.
[1] He incorporated into the painting his concepts of multiple perspective, simultaneity, and time, according to his belief that the fourth dimension was crucial to the new art that could compete with the classical French tradition.