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The narrative of the scene is ambiguous, but the figures are clearly members of the peasant class—the largest socio-economic group in France until the mid-20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Raymond Chabrillac was active in Paris from the 1820s onwards. He was a pupil of Guillaume Guillon Lethiere and attended the Salon de Paris for various periods between 1833 and 1842. His most well-known paintings are a series of portraits of some of the protagonists of the French Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst this is neither a scene of peasant revolt nor Napoleonic battle, there are overtones of both in this quiet composition. The peasant farmers, members of the Third Estate, played a major role in starting the French Revolution in 1789, having increasingly suffered under heavy taxation, rising food prices, poor harvests and unfairness of the feudal system. The male figure to the left is evidently a working man, who—significantly—wears the baggy long trousers of the \u003cem\u003esans-culottes\u003c\/em\u003e—the working class Revolutionaries who pitted themselves against the fashionable silk knee-breech-wearing nobility and bourgeoisie. The generally brown\/black palette of the drawing is accented with touches of bright blue and red bodycolour, colours of the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mood of the painting is one of watching and waiting. The composition emphatically sets light against dark. The male figure looks out through the heavy stone archway to a vista of luminous sky: contemplating, perhaps, what is to come and what has been before. Whilst the Revolution brought abolition of the feudal system and fairer distribution of taxes, hardship continued for the peasant class in many ways. 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Painted in sepia wash with graphite underdrawing, this work exemplifies Wright's talent for communicating drama and emotion despite the small scale and modest colouring of his choice of medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWright's reputation rests upon his small, delicately rendered compositions illustrating Shakespeare and other poets. He was deeply involved in the theatrical world of early 19th-century London, living in Bishop's Walk, Lambeth, at that time the theatrical quarter, and working as a scene painter at the opera house. It is said that his love of literature was such that his son recalled how, during an illness, he broke out in his sleep reciting long passages from Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: From the Collection of Dr E.M. Brett of Hampstead. 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Herberte was prolific and is very well listed as a sporting artist, known for his spirited depictions of hunting and horse racing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere we witness all the fun of the Victorian circus, as Herberte sites the viewer in the ring, along with his cast of characters: the side-saddle female rider, strongman, clown and ringmaster. The illustrative quality of his art brings the drama to life; and the central clown-turned-ringmaster (who turns his torn paper ring on the real ringmaster) looks out to us and points, as if breaking the fourth wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other painting in the pair (see stock number JX-795) is a wonderful complement to this scene and shows the same performers backstage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis circus subject is rare in Herberte's oeuvre; it evidently allowed the artist to showcase his sensitive treatment of horses and talent for capturing lively narrative and spectacle. Herberte worked as a scenic painter in the 1850s and 1860s (in his native Midlands and Greenwich, London), so was adept at conjuring up atmosphere and a sense of theatricality. The vast majority of his output as an artist was hunting scenes, which also share a performative quality, full of energy and drama. He also on occasions painted horse fairs, such as Windsor Horse Fair in 1887.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe popularity of the circus in the second half of the 19th century cannot be overstated. By the 1880s the circus had become an art form that could be enjoyed by all, with huge circuses travelling across Europe and America, and acts had become increasingly extravagant, exotic and bizarre, from human cannonballs to aquatic performances in flooded circus rings. The origins of the modern circus, however, are deeply rooted in horsemanship, and the equestrian stunts performed by Philip Astley at his riding school in 1768. 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