Jean Louis Forain
French, 1852–1931
Dancer in Her Dressing Room
c. 1890
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 10 1/2 x 13 13/16 in. (26.7 x 35.1 cm) Frame: 14 9/16 x 17 15/16 x 1 3/4 in. (37 x 45.6 x 4.4 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.738 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Jean Louis Forain, Dancer in Her Dressing Room, c. 1890, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.738
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-One: Forain. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963.
Daimaru Museum of Art. Paris à la Belle Epoque. Exhibitionc catalogue. Tokyo: Art Life, 1992.
. "Williamstown: Mostra Forain al Clark Art Institute.". Emporium, 138.. (Aug. 1963)..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Lillian Browse.. Forain the Painter, 1852-1931.. London: Paul Elek, Ltd.. 1978..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Valdès-Forain, Florence, Joëlle Raineau, and Cécile Coutin. Jean-Louis Forain (1852 - 1931): La Comédie parisienne. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Paris musées, 2011.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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Provenance
Sir George Alexander Drummond, Montreal (d. 1910, his sale, Christie’s, London, 26 June 1919, no. 36, as A Ballet Girl, sold to Knoedler); [Knoedler, London, sold to Clark, 30 June 1919, as A Ballet Girl]; Robert Sterling Clark (1919–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
