L'audience (3e planche) (The Hearing) (third plate)

c. 1895

Jean-Louis Forain

Artist, French, 1852 - 1931

Jean-Louis Forain

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in brown on wove Arches vellum paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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

  • 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

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