Jean Louis Forain
French, 1852–1931
The Ball (Madame Forain)
c. 1880–1900
| Medium | ink, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper |
| Dimensions | 15 5/8 x 11 13/16 in. (39.7 x 30 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1761 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Jean Louis Forain, The Ball (Madame Forain), c. 1880–1900, ink, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1761
Select Bibliography
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.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-One: Forain. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963.
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.
Provenance
Knoedler, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1915).
