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Les Notables (1915)

Jean Louis Forain

etching with some surface tone

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Les Notables (1915)
Les Notables (1915)
Les Notables (1915)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print

Materials:

Paper, Ink

Physical Object Description:

Group of figures, a woman and two children and four men, (?)about to be shot by soldiers, from behind. Signed with initial and dated on plate. Signed by the artist and titled in unknown hand "Les notables" and "(Petite planche)".

Technique:

Etching

Dimensions:

22.5 x 28.4 cm

Accession Number:

1925,0314.19

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1925

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Gifted by the subscribers of the Contemporary Art Society's Prints and Drawings Fund, 1902; presented to Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1925

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Artist Bio

Jean Louis Forain
Les Notables (1915)

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