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Jean-Louis Forain

Associated Names
Jean-Louis Forain

Artist, French, 1852 - 1931

The image depicts a man in formal attire standing upright in a room. He is positioned slightly to the left and gazes forward. The man has a slender face with a mustache and sideburns, wearing a top hat, a black tailcoat, a white waistcoat, a white dress shirt, a black bowtie, holding a book in one hand and a walking cane in the other. The background features soft gray and red walls painted in a watercolor style.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor on board

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 27.8 x 19.5 cm (10 15/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3942

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

"forain" lower left composition, brown ink, artist's hand. Not dated. "(L.) 243" verso, lower elft sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "74 / 96 / 40 / 210 63 / 231" verso, center sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "38[illeg.] x 30" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "tous les felits tus mines / bis or / legereussent flur clair / sous [illeg.] d'an / bulle / cad 6154" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "48 x 37 / + 3 c.67" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Wikidata ID

Q64581310

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