The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto)
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.a
Location: not on view
Description
This image captures the bustling activity of urban Paris in the late 19th century. A fashionable woman climbs into a fiacre—a four-wheel 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.- Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener Galerie, Paris, FranceOctober 1978Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980]Bequest of Mrs. Muriel Butkin [1915-2008]June 4, 2018The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.45.a