Art, literature & history
The Departure for Versailles
c. 1919
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brush and brown ink and graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 29.5 x 46 cm (11 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.4112
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. The Departure for Versailles. 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,_The_Departure_for_Versailles,_c._1919,_NGA_7231.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Departure for Versailles — Jean-Louis Forain. c. 1919.
Medium: brush and brown ink and graphite on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 29.5 x 46 cm (11 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.4112. 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.