Circus Sideshow ☲ Seurat ☳ Canvas snakes gazing out at mountains and

gazing out at mountains and trees in a sea of fog

he made at the beginning of his career

A Centennial of Independence (1892) by Henri Rousseau commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first French Republic formed in 1792

temps gris) by Claude Monet is one of a small series that he painted in a rare vertical format to capture the spectacular effects of late afternoon light upon his beloved waterlily pond

Circus Sideshow ☲ Seurat ☳ Canvas snakes gazing out at mountains andCircus Sideshow (1888, Parade de cirque) by Georges Seurat is his first nocturnal painting and the first to depict popular entertainment. Traveling circuses made seasonal appearances in Paris, where free sideshows were staged outside the circus tent to sell tickets. This painting represents the parade, or sideshow, of the Circus Corvi at the annual Gingerbread Fair in spring 1887, at Place de la Nation.