"J'ose pas encore aller le décrocher...ça lui fera trop de peine." ("I don't dare take them down...it would hurt him too much."), c. 1892

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Medium

lithograph on wove Arches vellum paper

Dimensions

sheet (irreg.): 39.6 × 26 cm (15 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Faxon 1982, no. 186

Accession Number

1943.3.3839

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

Not signed. Not dated. "c / spx" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "m97" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "MK 30308" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "J'ose pas encore aller le décrocher" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "1879" [underlined] verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"RMx" (Roger Marx collector's stamp) lower right margin, black stamped ink, (Lugt 2229). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Bibliography

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