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The image shows a woman and a man in a dimly lit room. The woman is adjusting her loose garment and the man is lying in bed, looking at her. The woman has dark hair in a bun and the man has short, dark hair and a mustache. There is a table with a hat on it, and a partially visible painting on the wall in the background. The setting appears cozy and intimate.
National Gallery of Art · Print
a) L'amour à Paris (Love in Paris) (recto); b) Untitled (verso)
Jean-Louis Forain
- Date
- c. 1893
- Medium
- a) lithograph on wove Arches vellum paper b) graphite on wove Arches vellum paper
- Dimensions
- image (recto): 37.5 × 28.5 cm (14 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.) sheet (irreg.): 52 × 39.4 cm (20 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1943.3.3846.a-b
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1876 to 1900
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- French
- interior
- architecture
- Woman
- Bed
- Dress
Provenance
Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919], Paris, (Lugt 421); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); sold 19 April 1929 to Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
Inscription
"f" lower right margin, in stone, artist's hand. "G16II" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "au verso - froques de Danseuse" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "MK 30109" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.
Marks
(Alfred Beurdeley collector's stamp) lower right margin, black stamped ink, (Lugt 421). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).
Watermarks
"j.l. forain"
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