The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 29, 2022

Seated Nude

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Jean Louis Forain

(French, 1852-1931)

France, late 19th-early 20th Century

Brown, white, and black chalk

Support: Pink modern laid paper

Sheet: 41.9 x 31.9 cm (16 1/2 x 12 9/16 in.)

Gift of Mrs. Ralph King 1926.274

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in black chalk: forain ; VERSO, lower right, in black crayon?: 400

Exhibition history

CMA, "French Drawings from the Collection, Gallery XVI" (Apr. 30-June 16, 1954).

CMA, "French Drawings from the Collection, Gallery VIII" (Jan. 14-Apr. 26, 1953).

CMA, "Drawings in Gallery VIII" (June 14-Dec. 5, 1950).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection, Gallery VIII" (June 15, 1949-Apr. 24, 1950).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection, Gallery VIII" (Jan. 13-Apr. 26, 1948).

CMA, "Drawings in Gallery VIII" (June 10-Oct. 20, 1947).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 12, 1946-Apr. 20, 1947).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 16, 1945-Apr. 21, 1946).

CMA, French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections (among CMA drawings supplementing this show) (Jan. 6-Feb. 15, 1942).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 11-Oct. 3, 1940).

CMA, "Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection" (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Oct. 8-Nov. 7, 1937).

CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 12-Sep. 15, 1935).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).

French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1926.274