National Gallery of Art · Print
Avocat compulsant un dossier (Lawyer Going through a Brief)
Jean-Louis Forain
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- etching in blue on laid Van Gelder paper
- Dimensions
- image: 22.8 × 28.5 cm (9 × 11 1/4 in.) plate: 23.8 × 29.7 cm (9 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.) sheet: 37 × 49 cm (14 9/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1943.3.3785
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1901 to 1925
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- French
- interior
- architecture
- Woman
- Costume
- Man
Provenance
Lucien Henraux [1877-1926], Paris; Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
Inscription
"forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "3eme etat" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "G77III" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.
Marks
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).
Watermarks
[crowned Strasburg lily] "VGL / VAN GELDER ZO[NEN]"
NGA object ID 6903. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.