Pen and ink sketch of a sideshow stage with a standing strongman, a drummer, a man beside a barrel, and a crowd of spectators in the foreground.

The Side Show (La Parade)

Pen and ink sketch with gray wash shows a sideshow stage: a muscular standing strongman with folded arms, a drummer at left, and a seated man beside a large barrel. Rows of spectators fill the foreground, and a hatted figure sits at lower right, all drawn in loose, sketchy lines.

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Date: 1865/67
Medium: Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, with charcoal, on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream)
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2401 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1867).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mary and Leigh Block

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