Le Traite des blanches (The White Slave Trade)
1886 and 1909
Artist, French, 1852 - 1931
Jean-Louis Forain

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 19.9 × 14 cm (7 13/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
sheet (irreg.): 47.2 × 35.5 cm (18 9/16 × 14 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.143.1360
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Catalogue Raisonné
Faxon 1982, no. 28
Artwork history & notes
Inscriptions
"forain" lower right margin, graphtie, artist's hand. Not dated. "1/25" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "cs" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.
Markings
(Alfred Beurdeley collector's stamp) lower right margin, black stamped ink, (Lugt 421).
Watermarks
"[VAN] GELDER ZONEN" / (Fortune figure)