Georges Seurat

(probably) Joris-Karl Huysmans, Paris

Galerie Barbazanges (Camille Hodebert), Paris

De Hauke & Co. (Jacques Seligmann & Co.), New York

Acquired from the above on 26 June 1939 by the present owner

Paris, 1 rue Laffitte, 8ème Exposition de peinture, 1886, no. 181 (titled Une parade)

Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery and Fine Arts Academy, Nineteenth Century French Art In Retrospective 1800-1900, 1932, no. 94

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Style and Technique, 1936, no. 31, pl. XIV, illustrated

New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., The Stage, 1939, no. 26, p. 28 (titled Study for “La Parade”)

Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, Great Modern Drawings, 1940. no. 50 (titled Study for “La Parade”)

New York, American-British Art Center, Drawings of Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1944. no. 32

New York, Buchholz Gallery, Seurat: His Drawings, 1947, no. 12

New York, Knoedler Gallery, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, 1949, no. 33, illustrated

The Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, 1958, no. 134, pp. 24 and 33; p. 76, illustrated (titled Drawing for La Parade and dated about 1886)

Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, The Academic Tradition: Nineteenth Century French Drawing, 1968

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Picasso: The Saltimbanques, 1980-81, no. 12, fig. 11, p. 24, illustrated; p. 86 (titled First Study for “La Parade de Cirque” and dated circa 1886)

Milwaukee Art Center; Columbus Art Museum and Albany, New York State Museum, Center Ring: The Artist: 1981-82, no. 84, p. 23, illustrated

Tokyo, The Nihonbashi Takashimaya Art Galleries and Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, Impressionism and The Modern Vision: Master Paintings from The Phillips Collection, 1983, no. 44, p. 91, illustrated in color; p. 197 (titled First Study for ‘La Parade’ and dated 1887-88)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Paris, Grand Palais, Seurat 1859-1891, 1991-92, no. 45, p. 68, illustrated in color; pp. 170, 266, 312, 315-16 and 380-81 (titled Une parade; Clowns et poney) (New York only)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte,” 2004, no. 32, pp. 118 and 273; p. 120, illustrated in color (titled Sidewalk Show)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Seurat: The Drawings, 2007-08, no. 135, p. 244, illustrated in color; p. 254 (titled Sidewalk Show (Une Parade [Clowns et poney]))

Kunsthaus Zürich and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Georges Seurat: Figure in Space, 2009-10, no. 69, p. 128, illustrated in color; p. 143 (titled Clowns et poney (Une Parade) (Sidewalk Show)) (exhibited in Frankfurt only)

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music, 2014-15, fig. 30, pp. 33 and 179; p. 36, illustrated in color (titled Sidewalk Show)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seurat’s Circus Sideshow, 2017, fig. 51, p. 56, illustrated in color; pp. 57-58 and 130 (titled Sidewalk Show (Une Parade) and dated circa 1883-84)

Labruyère, “Les Impressionnistes II,” Le Cri du peuple, vol. 3, no. 942, 28 May 1886, p. 2 (titled Parade)

“Phillips Memorial Gallery,” The Washington Post, 31 December 1939, p. 7 (titled The Parade)

Germain Seligmann, The Drawings of Georges Seurat, New York, 1946, no. 22, pp. 19-21 and 59; pl. XIX, illustrated (titled La Parade and dated circa 1882)

The Phillips Collection, ed., The Phillips Collection Catalogue: A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources, Washington, D.C., 1952, p. 91; pl. 74, illustrated (titled First Drawing for “The Side Show” and dated circa 1882)

César M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, vol. II, Paris, 1961, no. 668, p. 246; p. 247, illustrated (dated circa 1887)

William I. Homer, “Review: Seurat’s Paintings and Drawings,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 105, no. 723, June 1963, p. 283

John Russell, Seurat, New York and Toronto, 1965, no. 188, p. 212, illustrated; p. 283

Pierre Courthion, Georges Seurat, New York, 1968, p. 38, illustrated (titled First Study for “The Side Show” and dated circa 1887)

Japan Art Center, Inc., ed., Seurat et le Néo-Impressionnisme, Tokyo, 1972, pl. V, illustrated

Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Seurat, Paris, 1973, no. D 54, p. 107, illustrated (dated 1887)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, 1986, p. 446 (in reproduction of Exh. Cat., Paris, 1 rue Laffitte, 8ème Exposition de peinture, 1886)

Masataga Ogama and Takeshi Kashina, Les Peintres Impressionistes 13: Seurat, Tokyo, 1978, pl. IV, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Master Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1985, p. 156 (dated 1882-83)

Sarane Alexandrian, Seurat, Paris, 1990, p. 87, illustrated; p. 95 (titled Clowns et poney (La Parade) and dated circa 1882)

Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Seurat, Geneva, 1990, p. 109, illustrated; p. 213 (titled Clowns and Pony, Study for “Circus Sideshow” and dated circa 1887)

Richard Thomson, Seurat, Oxford and New York, 1990, p. 153

Ruth Berson, ed., The New Painting, Impressionism: 1874-1886, vol. II, San Francisco, 1996, no. VIII-181, p. 252; p. 276, illustrated (titled Une Parade)

Paul Smith, Seurat and the Avant-Garde, New Haven and London, 1997, fig. 82, p. 65; p. 66, illustrated (titled Une Parade: clowns et poney)

Robert L. Herbert, Seurat: Drawings and Paintings, New Haven and London, 2001, pl. 24, illustrated; pp. 44, 68 and 83 (titled Sidewalk Show (Une Parade))

Michelle Foa, Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision, New Haven and London, 2015, fig. 82, p. 120, illustrated; p. 121 (titled Parade)