Evanouissement à l'audience (Fainting at the Hearing), 1910

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on on laid Van Gelder paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.8 × 31.5 cm (9 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.)

sheet: 38.4 × 54 cm (15 1/8 × 21 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Faxon 1982, no. 112, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.3806

Artists / Makers

Jean-Louis Forain (artist) French, 1852 - 1931

Image Use

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Inscription

"forain" lower left composition, in plate, artist's hand. "forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "1er etat" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "coll M. Guerin" verso, lower center sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "Forain "Evanouissement a l'audience" (HH451)" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "75.402" [underlined] verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

(Marcel Louis Guérin collector's stamp) lower left margin, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1872b). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1982: Faxon, Alicia Craig. Jean-Louis Forain: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982.