JEAN LOUIS FORAIN (1852-1931) Portrait d’une jeune élégante au chapeau
signed 'JL forain' (lower right)
pastel on paper
21 1/2 x 17 in. (54.6 x 43.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1885
JEAN LOUIS FORAIN (1852-1931) Portrait d’une jeune élégante au chapeau
signed 'JL forain' (lower right)
pastel on paper
21 1/2 x 17 in. (54.6 x 43.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1885
Private collection, Sweden. Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam. Anthony d'Offay, London (by October 1966). Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 11 December 1969, lot 6. Fritz Perls, Berlin and Chicago (acquired at the above sale). Frances Lasker and Sidney F. Brody, Los Angeles. By descent from the above to the late owner, 2009.
A. Bury, "In The Galleries," The Connoisseur, vol. 162, no. 656, October 1966, p. 106 (illustrated).
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Vijf Eeuwen Schilderijen, Aquarellen en Tekeningen, December 1966, no. 83.
Florence Valdès-Forain intends to include this work in her forthcoming Forain catalogue raisonné.
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