Art, literature & history
Femme assise de profil (Woman Seated in Profile)
1909
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching (zinc plate) on laid Van Gelder paper
- Dimensions
- image: 18.6 × 12.4 cm (7 5/16 × 4 7/8 in.) plate: 19.6 × 13.1 cm (7 11/16 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 46.4 × 36.7 cm (18 1/4 × 14 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3795
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Femme assise de profil (Woman Seated in Profile). Jean-Louis Forain; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Femme assise de profil (Woman Seated in Profile) — Jean-Louis Forain. 1909.
Medium: etching (zinc plate) on laid Van Gelder paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 18.6 × 12.4 cm (7 5/16 × 4 7/8 in.) plate: 19.6 × 13.1 cm (7 11/16 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 46.4 × 36.7 cm (18 1/4 × 14 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3795. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.