Trickster Lawyers (recto) Figures in a Courtroom (verso)

Prints and Drawings

1924

Jean Louis Forain
French, 1852-1931

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Artist: Jean Louis Forain
Title: Trickster Lawyers (recto) Figures in a Courtroom (verso)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1924
Medium: Watercolor and black crayon, with touches of gouache, on cream wove paper (discolored to buff)
Dimensions: 37.8 × 52.7 cm (14 15/16 × 20 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1933.476

The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress,” June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 91, cat. 870.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, January 1944.
Santa Barbara, Calif., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, August, 1947.
Palm Beach, Fl., Society of Four Arts, “Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” January 5–27, 1974, cat. 18.
Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Gallery. The University of Chicago, “The Image of the Law in 20th Century Art,” October 12-November 27, 1977.
Oxford, Mississippi, The University of Mississippi, “The Eye of the Law,” October 2-December 4, 1978.

Annie Swan Coburn (1856-1932), Chicago, by November 1932 [collection inventory]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

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