Reception at an Exhibition

1890s

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	24 x 19 3/4 in. (61 x 50.2 cm) Frame: 29 1/8 x 24 15/16 x 1 5/8 in. (74 x 63.3 x 4.1 cm)
Object Number	1955.737
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Jean Louis Forain, Reception at an Exhibition, 1890s, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.737

Select Bibliography

New York: Durand-Ruel Galleries. Exhibition of Paintings by J. L. Forain.. April 13-May 2, 1936.. 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. "Forain: Genius at the Periphery." Art News 62, no. 2 (April 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. 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. 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

[Possibly Durand-Ruel, New York, in 1936]; [Clyfford Trevor, New York, sold to Clark, 27 Oct. 1943, as Reception Artistique]; Robert Sterling Clark (1943–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.