Physical Qualities
Color crayon and brush and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 407 x 308 mm. (16 x 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Leslie and Tom L. Freudenheim, Baltimore
Object Number
1979.336
Richard Ranft’s elegant image of a circus rider was published by L'Estampe
Moderne, a collector's edition of 100 color lithographs from leading
contemporary artists, which appeared in monthly issues between May 1897
and April 1899. Ranft’s bold cropping of the horse and rider and juxtaposition
of near and far elements suggests a keen awareness of Japanese wood block
prints. These had been collected by Impressionist painters like Claude Monet
for some time but they became widely popular in Paris after they were
displayed at the universal exhibition of 1878.
(Circus Family, 2009)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1979; Tom and Leslie Freudenheim, Baltimore.
Oliver Shell, BMA, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger," 22 February through 17 May 2009.
Andaleeb Banta, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest," July 18 - December 19, 2021.
Andaleeb Banta, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest," July 18 - December 19, 2021.
Inscribed: RECTO: LR, in matrix: "RICHARD RANFT"
Markings: CM: L'Estampe Moderne (L.2790)
