
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011890At Versailles, July 1919
Inscriptions
signed, lower right in graphite: forain ; by artist, upper left, in graphite: A Verseilles ; by artist, lower center, in graphite: en juillet 1919 ; lower left, in graphite: La Doulourease. "Il se trompait: Elle est fraiche, mais pas joyeuse." ; lower right, in graphite: A2357
Provenance
[Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc.] (according to departmental card)
Exhibition history
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).
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
- 1919
- Medium
- black crayon, watercolor, and gouache, over graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 38 x 51.4 cm (14 15/16 x 20 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1925.1183
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