L'ambulante au parapluie (Walker with an Umbrella)

c. 1880

Jean-Louis Forain

Associated Names
Jean-Louis Forain

Artist, French, 1852 - 1931

The image shows a woman in a full-length side profile. She has distinct facial features with shadows accentuating her cheekbones, and her hair is styled under a hat adorned with a decorative plume or flower. She wears a long, patterned dress with long sleeves and holds an umbrella under her arm. The background features a heavily hatched and cross-hatched pattern, with a lamp post casting light in the upper left corner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid Van Gelder paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 12.7 × 8.5 cm (5 × 3 3/8 in.)
    plate: 16 × 12.1 cm (6 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
    sheet (irreg.): 32.5 × 25.8 cm (12 13/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3743

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Faxon 1982, no. 24, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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 center composition, in plate, artist's hand. "forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "G22 only" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "G.22. L'ambulante au parapluie" lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "A26525" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Markings

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

Watermarks

[Strasburg lily] "VGL"

Wikidata ID

Q64959268

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