Cirque de Paris
Medium
woodcut
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1974.82.1
Art Historical Context
**Cirque de Paris**Georg Alexander Mathey,1922 Woodcut on paper Step into the dazzling world of 1920s Paris with Georg Alexander Mathey's *que de Paris*, a 1922 woodcut print housed in the National Gallery Art, acquired through the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund Created in the exuberant post-World War I era, this artwork captures the thrill of the Parisian circus—a beloved spectacle of acrobats, clowns, and performers that symbolized escapism and joie de vivre amid Europe's recovery. Mathey, a lesser-known but skilled printmaker, evokes the electric atmosphere of the Cirque d'Hiver or similar ve...