Title Page from Le Cirque (The Circus)
Georges Rouault, French, 1871 - 1958
1930
Wood engraving on laid paper
Edition of 270
Sheet: 17 7/16 × 12 1/2 in. (44.3 × 31.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: 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
2014.73.104
Printer
Maurice Potin, Paris
Publisher
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Geography/Culture
Europe, France
Period
20th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Printed, upper center, in black ink: Obséquieux ou besogneux, / Peut-être a-t-il faim / Comme le loup sortant du bois, / Il montrera alors les dents / D'un sourire constraint, / Regard mélancolique / Ou un peu trop vif / Soulignant sa supplique. Qu'il aille au diable, disent les deux vestales entre-/tenant le feu du foyer domestique, ce grand niais qui ne / sait pas même parler français, ni au besoin patoiser, / Dansant en marchant / Quel air? / Grande sauterelle, va ravageant / Le champ, s'il te convient, / De Jean-Pierre / Qui vole nos œufs et nos lapins, / Mais laisse en paix / Les bonnes ménagères.; signed and dated, upper left, in block: 1932 / G Rouault; inscribed, lower center, in graphite: C; inscribed, lower center edge, in graphite: 67-58-37
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.
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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