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Scène de cour d'assises (Scene at the Court of Assizes)

Maker

(artist)
1852-1931

Title

Scène de cour d'assises (Scene at the Court of Assizes)

Date of Production

(circa) 1909

Medium

charcoal with stumping, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper, the pictorial area now discoloured (examined under microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 38 cm
Width: 51.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1932.SC.120

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Notes

A barrister is standing, right, and pleading for a female prisoner, who is seen guarded by a warder in the dock in the background. In the foreground a barrister is seated at a table, his head resting on his left arm as though he were asleep.

Provenance

purchased from the artist by Arthur Tooth & Sons, London; purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), February 1925; Courtauld Gift 1932

Exhibition History

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998

The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998

Forain, Roland Browse and Delbanco, London, 1964 ...More

Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1948

long-term loan, City Art Gallery, Wakefield, 1946-1947

Fighting French, London, 1943 (May)

A Loan exhibition of English and French paintings & drawings, Village Hall, Silver End, Essex, 30/03/1935-27/04/1935

Drawings by Forain, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1925 (Feb.) ...Less

Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998
cat. no. 68
ill. p. 128

John House, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1994
no. 78
ill. p. 199

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 120
ill. pl. 70 ...More

Home House Trustees, A catalogue of the pictures and other works of art at Home House, 20 Portman Square, London, London 1935
no. 71, p. 46 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, right centre edge, blindstamped: "CHAPRON-COQUELIN-PARIS".

Inscription: Recto: lower right, charcoal, signed: “forain”. Verso: upper left corner, graphite: “3095 / T” [Arthur Tooth inventory?]; lower left corner, graphite, circled: “No 70”; lower left, graphite, artist's hand?: “Scène de cour d’assises”; lower right corner, graphite: “5500-“.

Collector's mark: none.

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