L'avocat parlant au prévenu (2e planche) (The Lawyer Talking to the Prisoner) (second plate), 1909

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid Van Gelder paper

Dimensions

image: 20.5 × 28 cm (8 1/16 × 11 in.)
plate: 21.7 × 29 cm (8 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

sheet: 37 × 50.2 cm (14 9/16 × 19 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Faxon 1982, no. 66, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.3765

Artists / Makers

Jean-Louis Forain (artist) French, 1852 - 1931

Image Use

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Inscription

"forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "22-25" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "G 55II L'avocat parlant au prévenu (2nd plate)" verso, lower center sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "A27631" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "cons 6059" verso, lower right sheet graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

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

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1982: Faxon, Alicia Craig. Jean-Louis Forain: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982.