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Nude Woman seated on her Bed (1870-1920)

Jean Louis Forain

black, red and grey chalk, touched with white on brown paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Nude Woman seated on her Bed (1870-1920)
Nude Woman seated on her Bed (1870-1920)
Nude Woman seated on her Bed (1870-1920)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Chalk, Paper, White chalk

Physical Object Description:

Whole-length figure turned slightly to right with head facing front, her legs apart and only the right foot touching the ground, her arms raised and folded behind her head, bed and chair indicated behind. Inscribed: "f".

Technique:

Drawn

Dimensions:

34 x 22.1 cm

Accession Number:

1925,0314.2

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1925

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Jules Chavasse (-1919) by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary art Society, 1920; presented to Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1925

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Jules Chavasse Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Jean Louis Forain
Nude Woman seated on her Bed (1870-1920)

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