Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012015"The German troups received the formal order to spare private property"
Also known as: They Are Burning Everything
Inscriptions
signed, lower right, in graphite: forain ; VERSO, along lower edge, in graphite: Après Douai - "Les troupes allemandes ont reçu l'ordre le plus formel d'épargner la propriété privée." [Solf.?] " Sans doute, l'ordre n'était / pas encore arrivé." ; lower right, in graphite: A2185
Exhibition history
French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).
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 and brush and brown, gray and red wash, heightened with white gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.9 x 47.8 cm (12 9/16 x 18 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
- Accession no.
- 1956.729
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