Why it matters
A clown with a violin and bow stands in front of a sketchy circus audience. Renoir painted it as a wall decoration for a Paris café, but the owner went bankrupt and the canvas stayed with him.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1868.
- He was to be paid 100 francs.
- It is one of the few Renoirs in a Dutch collection, the Kröller-Müller Museum.
Based on the Dutch Wikipedia article De clown (schilderij) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
