Scène De Cirque is an oil on canvas painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall, from c. 1970.

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

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

[3] Among other Post-Impressionist and Modern painters who featured the circus in their works are Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Kees van Dongen, and Fernand Léger.

[3] The painting has been estate of the artist till 1998 when it was sold to private collector.