a) Au théâtre (At the Theatre) (recto); (b) Untitled (verso), c. 1892

Not on View

a) lithograph on wove Arches vellum paper b) crayon in purple on wove Arches vellum paper

image (recto): 20.1 × 29.6 cm (7 15/16 × 11 5/8 in.)

sheet (irreg.): 39.5 × 51.9 cm (15 9/16 × 20 7/16 in.)

Faxon 1982, no. 187

1943.3.3840.a-b

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

"forain" lower right composition, in stone, artist's hand. Not dated. "forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Verso: none.

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

(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); sold 3 December 1928 to Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

1945: French Prints of the 19th Century from the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico City, 1945, no. 36.

1956: Art and the Theater, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC, 1956.

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