Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011403Inscriptions
signed lower right, in black crayon: forain ; upper left, in graphite: 12 ; lower left, in graphite: C.B.E. ; lower left, in graphite: 115 ; lower left, in graphite: Une-idylle ; lower left, in graphite: TP ; lower right, in graphite: 125 ; VERSO, lower right, in graphite: Idylle ; lower right, in graphite: [illegible] [cropped along torn lower edge] ; lower right, in graphite: 28 + 44 ; lower right, in graphite: [xee ?]
Exhibition history
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 28, 1937). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940). French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931)
- Date
- fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s
- Medium
- black crayon
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 43.6 x 27.9 cm (17 3/16 x 11 in.); Image: 19 x 20 cm (7 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Ralph King
- Accession no.
- 1924.328
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