Art, literature & historyLes saltimbanques
1940
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping, erasing, scraping, and wetting on pink wove paper, altered to a tan tone, squared with charcoal for transfer
- Dimensions
- 107.1 × 90.5 cm (42 3/16 × 35 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1973.719
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Les saltimbanques — Fernand Léger. 1940.
Medium: Charcoal, with stumping, erasing, scraping, and wetting on pink wove paper, altered to a tan tone, squared with charcoal for transfer. Dimensions: 107.1 × 90.5 cm (42 3/16 × 35 11/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.