L'audience (3e planche) (The Hearing) (third plate)
c. 1895
Artist, French, 1852 - 1931
Jean-Louis Forain

Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in brown on wove Arches vellum paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 28.5 × 41.6 cm (11 1/4 × 16 3/8 in.)
sheet: 38.8 × 52.2 cm (15 1/4 × 20 9/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.3856
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Catalogue Raisonné
Faxon 1982, no. 223
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); sold 3 December 1928 to Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1982
Faxon, Alicia Craig. Jean-Louis Forain: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982.
Inscriptions
Not signed. Not dated. "L'audience (3e planche)" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "2/306" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "3" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "EE 2507" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "25020" [underlined] verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Markings
(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).
Watermarks
"j.l. forain"
Wikidata ID
Q64959481