Etude de femme nue, les mains croisées au-dessous de la tête (Study of a Nude Woman, Her Hands Crossed behind Her Head)
c. 1900
Artist, French, 1852 - 1931

Artwork overview
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Medium
transfer lithograph on laid Arches paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 25.5 × 18 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
sheet: 37.7 × 54.1 cm (14 13/16 × 21 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.3879
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Catalogue Raisonné
Faxon 1982, no. 253
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
"forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. Verso: none.
Markings
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).
Watermarks
"j.l. forain"
Wikidata ID
Q64959523