id:			135089
accession number:	1958.13
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.13
updated:		2025-08-07 22:05:00.222000

The Circus, 1896. Henri Gabriel Ibels (French, 1867–1936). Charcoal. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1958.13

title:				The Circus
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creation date:			1896
creation date earliest:		1896
creation date latest:		1896
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creditline:			Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	charcoal
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Henri Gabriel Ibels (French, 1867–1936)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition
	opening date:   1958-03-03T05:00:00
	<i>Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

	title:		The Artist and the Theater
	opening date:   1960-04-05T05:00:00
	<i>The Artist and the Theater</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 5-September 12, 1960).

	title:		Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988
	opening date:   1991-04-02T05:00:00
	<i>Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).

	title:		French Drawings from the Collection
	opening date:   1994-12-13T05:00:00
	<i>French Drawings from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Félix Fénéon [1861-1944], Paris, sold to M. Joseph Bernheim, Paris
	date: After 1896-before 1948
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			* <div><!--block-->According to Knoedler Gallery Archives, Getty Research Institute.</div>
			
			
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	M. Joseph Bernheim, Paris
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	(Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, sold to M. Knoedler and Co., New York)
	date: ?-1952
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	(M. Knoedler and Co., New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Cleveland, OH)
	date: 1952-1953
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	Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1953-1958
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1958-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 102
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	"Annual Report of the Year 1958." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 46, no. 6 (1959): 111-58.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 125.
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142346

	Schapiro, Meyer. "Seurat: Reflections." <em>Art News Annual</em>, XXIX (1964); 18-41.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 27
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	O'Toole, Judith Hansen. "Henri-Gabriel Ibels and Georges Seurat: An Attribution Confirmed." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 69, no. 7 (1982): 236-43.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 237-239, 243; Reproduced: p. 236, fig. 1
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159782

	Borowitz, Helen O. "Three Guitars: Reflections of Italian Comedy in Watteau, Daumier, and Picasso." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 4 (1984): 116-29.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 122, fig. 10
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159858

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