Henri-Gabriel Ibels
Au Cirque (At the Circus)

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Au Cirque (At the Circus)
  • Album 1, L'Estampe originale
Date1893
MediumLithograph in colors on wove paper, edition 3/100
DimensionsImage: 19 5/16 × 10 1/4 in. (49 × 26 cm)
Sheet: 23 1/16 × 16 5/16 in. (58.5 × 41.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Ira and Virginia Jackson Endowment
Object number2021.1
Non exposé

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Object Type
ProvenanceL’Estampe originale, 1893; Private collection, France; [Paris, Piasa Auction House, Editions: estampes, livres illustrés, multiples, France, December 6, 2017, lot 21]; [Sarah Sauvin, Paris, 2017]; purchased by the MFAH, 2020.
Exhibition History"Spectacle: Turn-of-the-Century Entertainment" The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, July 29, 2023-March 3, 2024 [Fifth Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]


Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, lower left, below image: no 3
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, lower right corner: 1/4
Recto: Signed on stone and printed, lower right corner of image: H.G.Ibels
Recto: Publisher's blindstamp, bottom right: L’Estampe originale [in chamfered corner square] [Lugt 819]
Catalogue raisonnéStein and Karshan 37; Boyer & Cate 37

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