a) L'amour à Paris (Love in Paris) (recto); b) Untitled (verso)

c. 1893

Jean-Louis Forain

Associated Names
Jean-Louis Forain

Artist, French, 1852 - 1931

The image shows a woman and a man in a dimly lit room. The woman is adjusting her loose garment and the man is lying in bed, looking at her. The woman has dark hair in a bun and the man has short, dark hair and a mustache. There is a table with a hat on it, and a partially visible painting on the wall in the background. The setting appears cozy and intimate.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    a) lithograph on wove Arches vellum paper b) graphite on wove Arches vellum paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (recto): 37.5 × 28.5 cm (14 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
    sheet (irreg.): 52 × 39.4 cm (20 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3846.a-b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Faxon 1982, no. 195, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919], Paris, (Lugt 421); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); sold 19 April 1929 to 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

"f" lower right margin, in stone, artist's hand. "G16II" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "au verso - froques de Danseuse" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "MK 30109" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Wikidata ID

Q64959461

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