Art, literature & history
France Watching
c. 1914/1919
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brush and gray and black ink on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 36.7 x 54.8 cm (14 7/16 x 21 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.9058
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. France Watching. 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,_France_Watching,_c._1914-1919,_NGA_11566.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
France Watching — Jean-Louis Forain. c. 1914/1919.
Medium: brush and gray and black ink on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 36.7 x 54.8 cm (14 7/16 x 21 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.9058. 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.