Le prévenu et l'enfant (The Prisoner and the Child), 1909

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid Van Gelder paper

Dimensions

plate: 39.6 × 30 cm (15 9/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

sheet: 50 × 36.7 cm (19 11/16 × 14 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Faxon 1982, no. 63, State ii/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.3762

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. "2e etat" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "G52II" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "MK 29030" 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

Lucien Henraux [1877-1926], Paris; Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Henraux, Lucien
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1945: French Prints of the 19th Century from the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico City, 1945, no. 35, repro.

Bibliography

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