Les instructions pour la journée (The Instructions for the Day)

c. 1897

Jean-Louis Forain

Artist, French, 1852 - 1931

Jean-Louis Forain

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color transfer lithograph on laid Arches paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 33 × 28.1 cm (13 × 11 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 54.9 × 39.1 cm (21 5/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3862

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Faxon 1982, no. 247, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); sold 19 April 1929 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

"forain" lower right composition, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "Les Instructions pour la journee" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "MG" upper right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "EE 2510 21103" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "64" verso, upper left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Markings

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

Watermarks

"j.l. forain"

Wikidata ID

Q64959491

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