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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    In the Wings
    Jean Louis Forain. In the Wings, 1899. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001633

    In the Wings

    by Jean Louis Forain

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed upper right: Forain 1899

    Provenance

    Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1913 [Durand-Ruel stock book no. 3717]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, for $1,200, November 29, 1913 [according to the receipt of sale from Durand-Ruel, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

    Exhibition history

    The Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Jean-Louis Forain and Sculptures by Emile Bourdelle, December 15, 1922–January 5, 1923, cat. 9. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 263. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 277. New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., The Stage: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, April 3–22, 1939, cat. 24. New York, American Federation of the Arts, Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Paintings, 1948–1949; traveled to Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, June 1–28 1948; Springfield, Missouri, Springfield Art Museum, August 1948; Saginaw, Michigan, The Saginaw Museum, December 19, 1948–January 9, 1949, cat. 11.; Memphis, Tennessee, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, March 1–22, 1949; Utica, New York, The Munson Williams Proctor Institute, April 1949. New York, The Jewish Museum, The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth, Justice, September 13, 1987–January 15, 1988, cat. 443. Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec : Images of Dancers, October 13, 2002–January 5, 2003, no cat. no.

    Publications

    “Exhibition of Forain Drawings,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, 9 (1923), p. 108. Daniel Catton Rich, “Forain,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 25, 7 (1931), p. 97 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 162.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931)
    Date
    1899
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    60.5 × 73.8 cm (23 3/16 × 29 1/16 in.); Framed: 82.6 × 95.6 × 11.5 cm (32 1/2 × 37 5/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    nineteenth century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.1118

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