Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011986The Man Who Fired upon Clemenceau
Inscriptions
signed, lower right, in graphite: forain ; lower left, in graphite: Anxieté de celui qui tenta de tuer / Clemenceau le 19 Février, 1919. "S'il meurt, qui me fera gracier?..." ; lower right, in graphite: Celui-qui tira sur Clemenceau. ; lower right, in graphite: A2280
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
- c. 1919
- Medium
- black crayon and black gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 45.7 x 56.9 cm (18 x 22 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1925.1184
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