The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 9, 2023

The Circus

1896

Henri Gabriel Ibels

(French, 1867–1936)

France, 19th century

Charcoal

Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1958.13

Location

not on view

Provenance
After 1896-before 1948
Félix Fénéon [1861-1944], Paris, sold to M. Joseph Bernheim, Paris 1
?-?
M. Joseph Bernheim, Paris
?-1952
(Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, sold to M. Knoedler and Co., New York)
1952-1953
(M. Knoedler and Co., New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Cleveland, OH)
1953-1958
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1958-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

1 According to Knoedler Gallery Archives, Getty Research Institute.
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 102
"Annual Report of the Year 1958." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 6 (1959): 111-58. Mentioned: p. 125. www.jstor.org
Schapiro, Meyer. "Seurat: Reflections." Art News Annual, XXIX (1964); 18-41. Reproduced: p. 27
O'Toole, Judith Hansen. "Henri-Gabriel Ibels and Georges Seurat: An Attribution Confirmed." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 7 (1982): 236-43. Mentioned: pp. 237-239, 243; Reproduced: p. 236, fig. 1 www.jstor.org
Borowitz, Helen O. "Three Guitars: Reflections of Italian Comedy in Watteau, Daumier, and Picasso." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 4 (1984): 116-29. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 122, fig. 10 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

The Artist and the Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 5-September 12, 1960).

Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).

French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

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