L'audience (3e planche) (The Hearing) (third plate)

c. 1895

Jean-Louis Forain

Associated Names
Jean-Louis Forain

Artist, French, 1852 - 1931

The image shows multiple figures in a room. A woman in a dark cloak with a formal updo faces a man in a uniform and hat, surrounded by other figures in similar hats. The crowd behind them consists of people in dark suits, with one man leaning against a railing holding a hat. The setting appears to be indoors, with a court-like arrangement of the figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in brown on wove Arches vellum paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 28.5 × 41.6 cm (11 1/4 × 16 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 38.8 × 52.2 cm (15 1/4 × 20 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3856

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Faxon 1982, no. 223

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); sold 3 December 1928 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

Not signed. Not dated. "L'audience (3e planche)" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "2/306" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "3" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "EE 2507" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "25020" [underlined] verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Wikidata ID

Q64959481

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