"They Are Burning Everything - They must be about to Retreat"
c. 1919
Jean Louis Forain
Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931)
Drawings
"They Are Burning Everything - They must be about to Retreat", c. 1919. Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931). Black crayon and black wash heightened with white gouache; sheet: 31.6 x 47.7 cm (12 7/16 x 18 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1925.1186
- Maker/Artist
- Forain, Jean Louis
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- black crayon and black wash heightened with white gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.6 x 47.7 cm (12 7/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower right, in graphite: forain ; across bottom, in graphite: Apres Douai ("Les troupes allemandes ont reçu l'ordre le plus formel d'épargner la [propreté?] [illegible]" [G?]olf.. "Sans doute, l'ordre métait pas encore arrivé." ; lower right, in graphite: A2362
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1925.1186
- Credit Line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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