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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Ava Mendelsohn
    Jean Louis Forain. Ava Mendelsohn, fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00011588

    Ava Mendelsohn

    by Jean Louis Forain

    Also known as: Head of a Woman; Portrait of Mlle. Ava Mendelsohn

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    Inscriptions

    signed, lower right, in black chalk: forain

    Provenance

    [sale Marcel Guiot, Paris, July 1937, no. 53](according to departmental cataloging sheet)

    Exhibition history

    Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). The Vocabulary of Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 29-December 31, 1975).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Cleveland Museum of Art publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Cleveland Museum of Art is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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
    pastel
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 31.5 x 26.1 cm (12 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Edward B. Greene
    Accession no.
    1951.416

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