Behind the Scenes by Ludwig Knaus (1880)

Painting of a travelling circus family behind a tent, with children, a clown, poodles and an acrobat on a rope above.

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Ludwig Knaus painted this scene, dated 1880, showing a travelling troupe living behind their tent beside a cooking fire. A clown in costume holds an infant while a child in a blue dress sits with a toddler, and a woman reclines in a patterned robe near a man in a top hat smoking a pipe. Poodles, a drum and scattered props fill the foreground, while an acrobat balances on a rope above a crowd in the open-air square.

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1880

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Public domain