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I Don't Dare Take Them Down...It Would Hurt Him Too Much

A work made of lithograph hand-colored with blue and yellow colored crayons on light ivory wove paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of lithograph hand-colored with blue and yellow colored crayons on light ivory wove paper.

Date:

c. 1892

Artist:

Jean Louis Forain
French, 1852-1931

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jean Louis Forain

Title

I Don't Dare Take Them Down...It Would Hurt Him Too Much

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.

1887–1897

Medium

Lithograph hand-colored with blue and yellow colored crayons on light ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 33.2 × 28.5 cm (13 1/8 × 11 1/4 in.); Sheet: 35.5 × 25.6 cm (14 × 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Marjorie Hubachek Watkins in memory of her father Frank Brookes Hubachek

Reference Number

1993.296

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