# Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto)

- By: Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931)
- Date: late 1800s
- Medium: Charcoal with black ink framing lines
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: Sheet: 32.4 x 24.9 cm (12 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.45.a)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2018.45.a/2018.45.a_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This image captures the bustling activity of urban Paris in the late 19th century. A fashionable woman climbs into a fiacre—a four-wheel 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.