Art, literature & history
Sur le Front. -C'est sa theorie? -Non, c'est son breviaire.
c. 1914/1919
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black crayon and brush and black ink, with corrections by the artist in white opaque watercolor, on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 37.7 x 53 cm (14 13/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.4069
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Sur le Front. -C'est sa theorie? -Non, c'est son breviaire.. 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,_Sur_le_Front._-C%27est_sa_theorie%3F_-Non,_c%27est_son_breviaire.,_c._1914-1919,_NGA_7188.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Sur le Front. -C'est sa theorie? -Non, c'est son breviaire. — Jean-Louis Forain. c. 1914/1919.
Medium: black crayon and brush and black ink, with corrections by the artist in white opaque watercolor, on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 37.7 x 53 cm (14 13/16 x 20 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.4069. 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.