Lot Essay
This drawing is the maquette for the color aquatint La Parade (Chapon and Rouault, no. 203), which Rouault included in Cirque, 1930. The artist based this drawing on an earlier lithograph of the same title (Chapon and Rouault, no. 319), that was included in the book Maîtres et petits maîtres d'aujourdhui, published by E. Frapier in 1926. The artist used a variant of the image in the present drawing for the aquatint illustrated as the frontispiece (Chapon and Rouault, no. 240b) in his second circus book, Cirque de l'étoile filante, 1938.