Le Vieux Clown (The Old Clown) [Clown Assis (Seated Clown)], plate 5 from Le Cirque (The Circus)
Georges Rouault, French, 1871 - 1958
1930
Color aquatint on laid paper
Edition of 270
Plate: 12 15/16 × 9 in. (32.8 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 17 3/8 × 13 3/16 in. (44.2 × 33.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl, and John S. Stahl in memory of their parents Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Class of 1947
2014.73.109
Printer
Maurice Potin, Paris
Publisher
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left, in plate: GR / 1930; inscribed, lower right, in graphite: 1 [circled] / 9
Exhibition History
Paris/New York in the Twenties and Thirties, Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, February 16-May 5, 2018.
Recent Acquisition: The Stahl Collection of European and American Art, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 1-December 7, 2015.
Provenance
Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.
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