The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of January 24, 2025
Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto); Right Profile of Man Wearing Tall Hat (verso)
probably late 1800s
attributed to Jean Louis Forain
(French, 1852–1931)
Sheet: 32.4 x 24.9 cm (12 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2018.45
Location: not on view
Description
One side of this double-sided image captures the bustling activity of urban Paris in the late 1800s. A fashionable woman climbs into a fiacre—a four-wheeled carriage—from the street curb. Her driver, seated at front, watches as she enters. The artist’s loose, sketchy rendering of the charcoal further emphasizes the sensation of busy city life evoked in this drawing.- {{cite web|title=Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto); Right Profile of Man Wearing Tall Hat (verso)|url=false|author=Jean Louis Forain|year=probably late 1800s|access-date=24 January 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.45