![Julius LeBlanc Stewart - The Mountebank [1878]](http://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5724/29683867754_7cbb0f51e6_b.jpg)
While Stewart’s early paintings often featured a single, fashionable figure, The Mountebank is among Stewart’s first major complex works. In an expansive, frieze-like composition, the artist presents an assembly of members of a well-dressed family at leisure on a sun-drenched terrace as they bemusedly watch the antics of travelling costumed performers and their trick-goats.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 150 cm]