Jean Louis Forain
French, 1852–1931
Walk in the Sun
c. 1880–83
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (22.3 x 15.8 cm) Frame: 11 9/16 x 9 5/8 x 1 3/4 in. (29.4 x 24.4 x 4.4 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.736 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Jean Louis Forain, Walk in the Sun, c. 1880–83, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.736
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-One: Forain. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963.
"Forain: Genius at the Periphery." Art News 62, no. 2 (April 1963).
. "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.
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.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five, Supplement: South Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959.
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
[Knoedler, Paris, sold to Clark, 6 May 1924, as La Promenade au soleil]; Robert Sterling Clark (1924–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
