Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011987"They Are Burning Everything - They must be about to Retreat"
Inscriptions
signed, lower right, in graphite: forain ; across bottom, in graphite: Apres Douai ("Les troupes allemandes ont reçu l'ordre le plus formel d'épargner la [propreté?] [illegible]" [G?]olf.. "Sans doute, l'ordre métait pas encore arrivé." ; lower right, in graphite: A2362
Provenance
[Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc.] (according to departmental card)
Exhibition history
Images of War. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).
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 wash heightened with white gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.6 x 47.7 cm (12 7/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1925.1186
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