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Tight-Rope Walker, c. 1885. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 46.2 × 38.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Tight-Rope Walker
- Artist
- Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931)
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 46.2 × 38.2 cm (18 1/8 × 15 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 49.6 × 7.7 cm (22 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 3 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.