Un tableau de papa! (1ère planche) (A Painting of Daddy's!) (first plate), c. 1897

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Medium

transfer lithograph printed chine collé on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 31.1 × 24.5 cm (12 1/4 × 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 45.9 × 32.5 cm (18 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Faxon 1982, no. 245

Accession Number

1943.3.3873

Artists / Makers

Jean-Louis Forain (artist) French, 1852 - 1931

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Inscription

"f." lower left composition, in stone, artist's hand. "no 12 / forain" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "(H451)" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "15.686" [underlined] verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "Un tableau de papa (illeg.)" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Provenance

(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); sold 1 April 1929 to Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1982: Faxon, Alicia Craig. Jean-Louis Forain: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982.