The Family of Street Acrobats: the Injured Child (La Famille du Saltimbanque: L'Enfant Blessé)

The Family of Street Acrobats: the Injured Child (La Famille du Saltimbanque: L'Enfant Blessé)

1873
Artist
Gustave Doré, French, 1832-1883
Work Locations: Paris, France
Country
France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
2012.4
Credit Line
Purchase with departmental acquisition funds

Gustave Doré, The Family of Street Acrobats: the Injured Child (La Famille du Saltimbanque: L'Enfant Blessé), about 1873. Oil paint on canvas; 76 3/4 × 51 1/2 in. Denver Art Museum: Purchase with departmental acquisition funds, 2012.4

Dimensions
height: 76 3/4 in, 194.9450 cm; width: 51 1/2 in, 130.8100 cm
Inscription
Signed with atelier mark, lower left "G. Doré".
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
Estate of the artist; Doré Estate Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 10-14, 1885, lot 29; Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s London, November 23, 2000, lot 37; Private Collection, United States; Christie’s New York, October 12, 2011, lot 63; Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc., New York; purchased by the Denver Art Museum, 2012.
Exhibition History
  • "Gustave Doré: 1832-1883"—Musée d'Art Moderne, Strasbourg, 1983
  • “Gustave Doré (1832–1883): Master of Imagination—Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February, 18–May 11, 2014
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 13–September 14, 2014
  • “The Light Show” — Denver Art Museum, 5/19/2019 – 3/7/2021