Art, literature & history
Evanouissement à l'audience (Fainting at the Hearing)
1910
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on on laid Van Gelder paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 23.8 × 31.5 cm (9 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.) sheet: 38.4 × 54 cm (15 1/8 × 21 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3806
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Evanouissement à l'audience (Fainting at the Hearing). 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
Evanouissement à l'audience (Fainting at the Hearing) — Jean-Louis Forain. 1910.
Medium: etching and drypoint on on laid Van Gelder paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23.8 × 31.5 cm (9 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.) sheet: 38.4 × 54 cm (15 1/8 × 21 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3806. 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.