Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto); Right Profile of Man Wearing Tall Hat (verso) (probably late 1800s): Art, History and Details

Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto); Right Profile of Man Wearing Tall Hat (verso) (probably late 1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

One side of this double-sided image captures the bustling activity of urban Paris in the late 1800s. A fashionable woman climbs into a fiacre—a four-wheeled carriage—from the street curb. Her driver, seated at front, watches as she enters. The artist’s loose, sketchy rendering of the charcoal further emphasizes the sensation of busy city life evoked in this drawing.

Object facts

• Title: Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto); Right Profile of Man Wearing Tall Hat (verso)
• Date: probably late 1800s
• Creator attribution: Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Charcoal with black ink framing lines (recto); charcoal (verso)
• Dimensions: Sheet: 32.4 x 24.9 cm (12 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2018.45

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

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