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Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto); Right Profile of Man Wearing Tall Hat (verso)
attributed to Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931)
probably late 1800s
- Medium
- Charcoal with black ink framing lines (recto); charcoal (verso)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 32.4 x 24.9 cm (12 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this 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.
