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Feeding the Clowns

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.

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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.

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