Art, literature & history
Hiding the "louis"
c. 1914/1919
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brush and black ink and black crayon on laid Van Gelder paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 45.9 x 57.3 cm (18 1/16 x 22 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.4132
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Hiding the "louis". Jean-Louis Forain; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Louis_Forain,_Hiding_the_%22louis%22,_c._1914-1919,_NGA_7251.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Hiding the "louis" — Jean-Louis Forain. c. 1914/1919.
Medium: brush and black ink and black crayon on laid Van Gelder paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 45.9 x 57.3 cm (18 1/16 x 22 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.4132. 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.