Le Clown au Cirque is a tempera and pen and ink on board painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall, created in 1980.

The painting depicts floating clowns amid the circus ring in the middle of the performance.

[1] The subject of circus was dear to the artist.

[2] Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks.

[3] He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human beings who are like characters in certain religious paintings.