Tight-Rope Walker

Emily Crane Chadbourne, Washington D. C.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seurat's Circus Sideshow, February 15-May 29, 2017.

Thomson, Richard. Seurat’s Circus Sideshow, exh. cat. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017), pp. 36-38, 132, fig. 27.

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.

Essen, Germany, Museum Folkwang, Bilder einer Metropole: Die Impressionisten in Paris, October 2, 2010–January 30, 2011, cat. 23.

Françoise Cachin, “Paris leuchtet,” in Museum Folkwang, Bilder einer Metropole: Die Impressionisten in Paris, exh. cat. (Essen: Museum Folkwang, 2010), pp. 248, 283 (ill.), cat. 23.

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Die Eroberung der Strasse: von Monet bis Grosz, June 15–September 3, 2006.

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.

Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Louis Forain, 1852–1931: Exhibition of Paintings, April 15–May 20, 1956, cat. 7.

given to the Art Institute, 1951.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 264.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 191.

Joëlle Raineau, “Chronique d’une vie Parisienne en plein air,” in Petit Palais, Jean-Louis Forain (1852–1931): La comédie parisienne, exh. cat. (Paris: Petit Palais, 2011), p. 80; English translation, exh. cat. (Memphis: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2011), p. 80.

Daniel Catton Rich, “Forain,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 25, 7 (1931), pp. 96, 99 (ill.).

Lillian Browse, Forain the Painter 1852–1931 (London: Elek Books Limited, 1978), pp. 24, 98, 123 (ill.), no. 7.

on loan to the Art Institute from 1928 [according to Registrar records]

“Gifts and Loans,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 22, 6 (1928), p. 82.

Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 79 (ill.).

Michael Howard, ed. Impressionists by Themselves (London: Conran Octopus, 1991), p. 222 (ill.).

Kathleen Adler, Unknown Impressionists (Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1988), pp. 121 (ill.), 122–3.

Richard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (New York and Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), pp. 64 (ill.), 65.

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.

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.

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.).

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.

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.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Crisis of Impressionism, 1878–1882, November 2, 1979–January 6, 1980, cat. 20.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Jean-Louis Forain, 1852–1931, March 7–April 1, 1967, cat. 21.