Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le clown musical (The Clown) 1868 Oil on canvas, 193.5 x 130 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Commission Auguste Renoir made this large painting on commission for the owner of the café of Cirque d’Hiver, the winter circus in Paris.…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) L’entrée du Christ à Bruxelles (Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889) 1888 Oil on canvas, 252.6 × 431 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles James Ensor took on religion, politics, and art in this scene of Christ entering contemporary…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le vieux clown, ou Paillasse (The Old Clown) s.d. Watercolor, 17.1 × 10.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The theme of the old clown (or Paillasse), of which several versions are known, takes place in the series of…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au Cirque Fernando: L’Écuyère (At the Cirque Fernando: The Horsewoman) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 161.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This work, set at a circus, captures the tense moment in which a female…