Blocking the kitchen door
Blocking the kitchen door

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Blocking the kitchen door

Jean Louis Forain, French, 1852–1931
x1948-333

Information

Title
Blocking the kitchen door
Maker
Jean Louis Forain
Medium
Pen and ink
Dimensions
40.5 × 30.5 cm (15 15/16 × 12 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-333
Signatures
Signed in ink, lower right: Forain
Inscription
In ink, lower center: Puis q'on vous dit, que vos bottines sont montées! In graphite, on verso lower right: P 63 Forain V Proute -Paris 1937 In graphite, on verso lower left: Forain-Prouté-Paris 1837
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in ink, on verso lower left: D.F.P. [in circle] [Lugt 750a]
Culture
French
Type
sketches, drawings
Materials
wove paper, ink
Subject
pots, doors, men, women, figures (representations), kitchens

Proute, Paris

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