Evanouissement à l'audience (Fainting at the Hearing)

1910

Jean-Louis Forain

Associated Names
Jean-Louis Forain

Artist, French, 1852 - 1931

The image shows an etching of three people, depicted from the waist up. The person on the left is seated, wearing a helmet-like headpiece and flowing garment. The face is minimally detailed. The central figure is leaning back with distinct facial features such as a mustache. The person on the right stands, leaning over the seated figure, also lacking detailed facial features and dressed in a draped garment. The background is plain with light lines hinting at an indoor setting, devoid of additional elements.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on on laid Van Gelder paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.8 × 31.5 cm (9 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 38.4 × 54 cm (15 1/8 × 21 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3806

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Faxon 1982, no. 112, 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 left composition, in plate, artist's hand. "forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "1er etat" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "coll M. Guerin" verso, lower center sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "Forain "Evanouissement a l'audience" (HH451)" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "75.402" [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

"VAN GELDER ZONEN" / [Fortune figure]

Wikidata ID

Q64959386

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