Art, literature & history
Suspension d'audience (Recess of the Hearing)
1914
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph on laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 39.8 × 29.4 cm (15 11/16 × 11 9/16 in.) sheet: 52.1 × 35.3 cm (20 1/2 × 13 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3889
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Suspension d'audience (Recess of 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
Suspension d'audience (Recess of the Hearing) — Jean-Louis Forain. 1914.
Medium: lithograph on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 39.8 × 29.4 cm (15 11/16 × 11 9/16 in.) sheet: 52.1 × 35.3 cm (20 1/2 × 13 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3889. 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.