Jules Chéret
French, 1836–1932
Feeding the Clowns
before 1890
Medium | pastel on beige wove paper |
Dimensions | 22 1/4 x 13 in. (56.5 x 33 cm) Frame: 26 7/16 x 17 1/8 x 1 5/16 in. (67.2 x 43.5 x 3.3 cm) |
Object Number | 1955.676 |
Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Jules Chéret, Feeding the Clowns, before 1890, pastel on beige wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.676
Select Bibliography
. . 7:6.. Le Courrier Français.. Feb. 9, 1890..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
EUROPEAN PAINTINGS CATALOGUE ENTRY
Provenance
The artist, given to Madame Félicien Champsaur, Paris; [Gustave Pellet, Paris, sold 22 Apr. 1891];¹ André le Breton, Rouen (his sale, Drouot, Paris, 9 May 1938, no. 5, as La Becquée des Pierrots, sold to Paul Prouté, as agent for Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1938–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. Provenance from inscriptions on reverse of mount.