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Mar 12, 2013

The Suicide

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Jean Louis Forain

(French, 1852–1931)

France, late 19th-early 20th Century

Watercolor and gouache over black crayon; framing lines in black crayon

Support: Cream(2) wove laid

Sheet: 37.3 x 45.4 cm (14 11/16 x 17 7/8 in.)

Gift of Ralph King 1925.1002

Location

not on view

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Inscription

signed, lower right, in graphite: forain ; across bottom, in graphite: Les deux Ecoles: A Fresnes-les-Rungis. "Elles étaient à lacets.". ; lower right, in graphite: A2169

Exhibition history

CMA, Brush Drawings (Mar. 3-May 10, 1981).

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Hagerstown, Md., Washington County Museum of Fine Arts; St. Paul Gallery and School of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Milwaukee Art Institute; Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum; Louisville, Ky., J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, Exhibition of Modern Drawings (Feb. 15-Apr. 16; June 20-July 18; Aug. 1-29; Oct. 1-29; Nov. 12-Dec.; 10, 1944; Jan. 3-31; Feb. 14-Mar. 14; Mar. 29-Apr. 25; May 9-June 7, 1945), p. 91.

Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 3-May 10, 1981).

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