A clown greets the public in the basement of the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.
Seurat?
Toulouse Lautrec?
No.
It is to Renoir that we owe this atypical painting, on loan from the Museum of Otterlo (Netherlands).
In 1868, the painter was not yet renowned.
And it is to put a little butter in the spinach that he would have accepted this order from the owner of the Cirque d'Hiver café.
He wanted atmosphere, bright and joyful colors around his bar.
Thus this full-length portrait, despite what its richly worked frame suggests, was originally only a decoration.
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, explain curators Sylvie Patry and Anne Robbins.
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