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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.32
People
Jean-Louis Forain, French (Reims 1852 - 1931 Paris)
Title
A Loge at the Opera
Other Titles
Former Title: George Moore Leaving the Opera
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1880
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298264

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gouache on cream wove paper
Dimensions
28.9 x 23.7 cm (11 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
frame: 45.7 x 40.6 x 6.4 cm (18 x 16 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: [?] / Bristol vert / foncé / [?] / Anneau / 48-40 / environ

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York] sold, September 14, 1923, to; Annie Swan Coburn, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Annie Swan Coburn
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.32
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1935), no. 22
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 107, 250, repr. b/w cat. no. 366
  • Christopher Lloyd, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI, 2011), repr. p. 94 as pl. 33, listed on p. 170 under "works in the exhibition"

Exhibition History

  • Independent Painters of 19th Century Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/15/1935 - 04/28/1935
  • Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 10/14/2011 - 01/08/2012

Verification Level

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