# Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), in Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat painted this in 1887–88, aged about 28. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Under the glow of gas lamps, a trombonist stands on a platform outside a travelling circus in Paris, flanked by musicians and a ringmaster, while spectators line up in silhouette along the bottom edge. The scene is a parade, the free sample of entertainment staged to lure passers-by into a paid show.

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## The work

- Date: 1887–88
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 39 1/4 x 59 in. (99.7 x 149.9 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 61.101.17
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Georges Seurat](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/georges-seurat), French, 1859–1891

Seurat trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied the colour theories of Chevreul and others before developing pointillism, building pictures from small, separate touches of pure colour meant to combine in the eye.

8 works in the collection.

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