Art, literature & history
Une saisie (A Seizure)
c. 1891
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph printed chine collé on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 32 × 27.4 cm (12 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.) sheet: 50.7 × 36.3 cm (19 15/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3837
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Une saisie (A Seizure). 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
Une saisie (A Seizure) — Jean-Louis Forain. c. 1891.
Medium: lithograph printed chine collé on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 32 × 27.4 cm (12 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.) sheet: 50.7 × 36.3 cm (19 15/16 × 14 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3837. 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.