Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto); Right Profile of Man Wearing Tall Hat (verso)

Description

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.

Provenance

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Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto); Right Profile of Man Wearing Tall Hat (verso)

Jean Louis Forain

probably late 1800s

Accession Number

2018.45

Medium

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.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Muriel Butkin