Henri-Gabriel Ibels
Au Cirque (At the Circus)

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Artist Henri-Gabriel Ibels (French, 1867–1936)French, 1867–1936

PublisherPublished by André Marty (French, born 1857)French, born 1857

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

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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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