Tight-Rope Walker

1. Emily Crane Chadbourne, Washington D. C.; on loan to the Art Institute from 1928 [according to Registrar records]; given to the Art Institute, 1951.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 264.
• Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Louis Forain, 1852–1931: Exhibition of Paintings, April 15–May 20, 1956, cat. 7.
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Variations on a Theme by Artists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, August 4–30, 1959, cat. 20; traveled to San Francisco, California Palace of Legion of Honor, September 12–October 12, 1959.
• New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Jean-Louis Forain, 1852–1931, March 7–April 1, 1967, cat. 21.
• Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Crisis of Impressionism, 1878–1882, November 2, 1979–January 6, 1980, cat. 20.
• Milwaukee Art Museum, Center Ring: The Artist, Two Centuries of Circus Art, May 7–June 28, 1981, cat. 37; traveled to Columbus Museum of Art, August 30–October 11, 1981; Albany, New York, New York State Museum, December 11, 1981–March 7, 1982; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 24–June 6, 1982.
• Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 17, 1985, cat. 32; traveled to Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986 and Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.
• Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Die Eroberung der Strasse: von Monet bis Grosz, June 15–September 3, 2006.
• Essen, Germany, Museum Folkwang, Bilder einer Metropole: Die Impressionisten in Paris, October 2, 2010–January 30, 2011, cat. 23.
• Paris, Petit Palais, Jean-Louis Forain (1852–1931): La comédie parisienne, March 10–June 5, 2011, cat. 64; traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, June 26–October 9, 2011, cat. 70.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seurat's Circus Sideshow, February 15-May 29, 2017, no cat. no., fig. 27

• “Gifts and Loans,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 22, 6 (1928), p. 82.
• Daniel Catton Rich, “Forain,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 25, 7 (1931), pp. 96, 99 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 191.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 162.
• Lillian Browse, Forain the Painter 1852–1931 (London: Elek Books Limited, 1978), pp. 24, 98, 123 (ill.), no. 7.
• Joel Isaacson, The Crisis of Impressionism, 1878–1882, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1980), pp. 104 (ill.), 105, 106 under no. 21, cat. 20.
• Dean Jensen, “The Artist as Spectator,” in Dean Jensen, Center Ring: The Artist, Two Centuries of Circus Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1981), pp. 61, 63 (ill.).
• Alicia Faxon, “Jean-Louis Forain: Artist, Realist, Humanist,” in Yves Baker and Alicia Faxon, Jean-Louis Forain: Artist, Realist, Humanist, exh. cat. (Baltimore: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1982), p. 18.
• Richard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (New York and Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), pp. 64 (ill.), 65.
• Kathleen Adler, Unknown Impressionists (Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1988), pp. 121 (ill.), 122–3.
• Michael Howard, ed. Impressionists by Themselves (London: Conran Octopus, 1991), p. 222 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 79 (ill.).

In the Wings

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The Clothing of the Prisoner of war

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Jean Louis Forain

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Laffitte Street

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"I don't dare take them down yet...it would hurt him too much"

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The Reporter

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No. 8: Inquiétude. - Pourvu qu'ils tiennent!... - Qui ça? - Les Civils.

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Dancer and Man

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