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Parade de cirque
Parade de cirque (English: Circus Sideshow) is an 1887-88 Neo-Impressionist painting by Georges Seurat. It was first exhibited at the 1888 Salon de la Société des Artistes Indépendants (titled "Parade de cirque", cat. no. 614) in Paris, where it became one of Seurat's least admired works. "Parade de cirque" represents the sideshow (or parade) of the Circus Corvi at place de la Nation, and was his first depiction of a nocturnal scene,
Parade de cirque" as "so willfully pallid and sad". The painting was overshadowed by the much larger "Models" ("Les Poseuses") when first exhibited at the 1888 Salon des Indépendants. Subsequently neglected by Seurat himself, "Parade" was not included among the large canvases listed in his "ésthetique" of 1890.
Robert Herbert writes of "Parade":
Falling uneasily between the huge, early plein-air paintings "Baignade" and "La Grande Jatte" and the late indoor scenes