Danseuse et Maître d'hôtel (Dancer and Headwaiter), 1908

Not on View

Medium

soft-ground etching, drypoint, and aquatint on laid Van Gelder paper

Dimensions

image: 32.1 × 28 cm (12 5/8 × 11 in.)
plate: 33.8 × 29 cm (13 5/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

sheet: 47.7 × 38.1 cm (18 3/4 × 15 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Faxon 1982, no. 45, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.3749

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

"forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "G 34 only [underlined]" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "G. 34. "Danseuse ed Maître d'hotêl" lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "C. 6053" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "k. 5528 / c. 6053" 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).

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.