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Femme couchée (Woman Lying Down)

Maker

(artist)
1852-1931

Title

Femme couchée (Woman Lying Down)

Date of Production

(circa) 1921

Medium

black chalk and watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.2 cm
Width: 37.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1935.SC.122

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

purchased from the artist by Arthur Tooth & Sons, London; purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), February 1925; Courtauld Gift 1935

Exhibition History

Drawings from the Courtauld, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery, 1977-79

Forain, Roland Browse and Delbanco, London, 1964

Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960 ...More

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

Literature

John House, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1994
no. 90
illus. p. 214

Drawings from the Courtauld, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Ports, 1977-79
cat. no. 12
illus. p. 22

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 122 on p. 137 ...More

Drawings by Forain, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, February 1925.
cat. no. 20
no. 20 on p. 5 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, lower centre edge and starting to repeat at lower left corner, blindstamped: "CHAPRON COQUELIN PARIS".

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black chalk, signed: “Forain”; lower left corner, graphite, former acc. no.: “34.35”. Verso: upper left corner, both graphite: “T 2500” and below that “3097 / T” [Arthur Tooth numbers?]; lower left corner, graphite, circled: “no 39”; lower right corner, graphite: “3500-”.

Collector's mark: none.

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