a) Scène de grève (3e planche) (Scene of a Strike) (third plate) (recto); b) Untitled (verso), c. 1897

Not on View

Medium

a) lithograph on laid paper b) black lithographic crayon on laid paper

Dimensions

image (recto): 28.3 × 41.5 cm (11 1/8 × 16 5/16 in.)

sheet: 39.2 × 55 cm (15 7/16 × 21 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Faxon 1982, no. 242

Accession Number

1943.3.3860.a-b

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

"forain" lower right composition, in stone, artist's hand. "forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "La greve No 1" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Exhibition History

1974: Social Concern and the Worker: French Prints from 1830-1910, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; Cleveland Museum of Art; and Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1974, no. 12, repro.

Bibliography

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