Jean Louis Forain
French, 1852–1931
A Game of Solitaire
1862–1931
| Medium | pen and black ink and watercolor over faint pencil sketch on paper |
| Dimensions | Overall: 6 1/2 x 9 1/8 in. (16.5 x 23.2 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1764 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Jean Louis Forain, A Game of Solitaire, 1862–1931, pen and black ink and watercolor over faint pencil sketch on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1764
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-One: Forain. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963.
Framingham (MA): Danforth Museum.. Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931), Works from New England Collections.. Oct. 14-Nov. 31, 1979.
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Provenance
Galerie J. Allard, Paris; Esther Slater Kerrigan (sale New York, Parke-Bernet, January 8, 1942, lot no. 26, according to statement from Knoedler); Knoedler, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1942, under title of Les Cartes).
