a) Bolo pacha (recto); Study for Bolo pacha (verso) — Jean-Louis Forain

Jean-Louis Forain

a) Bolo pacha (recto); Study for Bolo pacha (verso)

c. 1914/1919

Dating
Approximate date range
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
a) brush and black ink and black crayon, with corrections by the artist in white opaque watercolor, on wove paper b) black crayon on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 37.3 x 52.9 cm (14 11/16 x 20 13/16 in.)
Collection no.
1943.3.4034.a-b
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Louis Forain. a) Bolo pacha (recto); Study for Bolo pacha (verso). 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

a) Bolo pacha (recto); Study for Bolo pacha (verso) — Jean-Louis Forain. c. 1914/1919.

Medium: a) brush and black ink and black crayon, with corrections by the artist in white opaque watercolor, on wove paper b) black crayon on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 37.3 x 52.9 cm (14 11/16 x 20 13/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.4034.a-b. 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.

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