Henri-Gabriel Ibels
Au Cirque (At the Circus)

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Artist Henri-Gabriel IbelsFrench, 1867–1936

PublisherPublished by André MartyFrench, 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 Fund

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-TBD [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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