Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat

1887–88 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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About this work

Artist: Georges Seurat (1859–1891)
Year: 1887–88
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 99.7 × 149.9 cm
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Movement: Post-Impressionism

A trombonist stands on a stage under a row of gas jets, flanked by musicians, a ringmaster and a clown, while a crowd in hats and bowlers waits below and a queue climbs the stairs to the box office at the right. This is the free parade staged outside the tent of the Circus Corvi at the Gingerbread Fair near the place de la Nation in eastern Paris in the spring of 1887, meant to lure passers-by into buying tickets. Seurat painted it over the winter of 1887–88 in his pointillist technique, the first nocturne and the first scene of popular entertainment in his work, and showed it at the Salon des Indépendants in 1888. The composition is ruled by horizontals and verticals and lit by artificial light, which gives it a stillness like an Egyptian relief. Stephen C. Clark bequeathed it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1960.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque) in the public domain?

Yes. Georges Seurat (1859–1891) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque) painted, and in what medium?

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque) dates from 1887–88 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 99.7 × 149.9 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Georges Seurat's Circus Sideshow — Circus Sideshow — a trombonist and musicians under gaslight at the entrance to a Paris circus — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Pointillism and The New Painting, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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