Art, literature & history
Avant la fête persanne
1912
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brush and black ink, wash, and black crayon on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 39 x 26.1 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3922
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Avant la fête persanne. 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
Avant la fête persanne — Jean-Louis Forain. 1912.
Medium: brush and black ink, wash, and black crayon on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 39 x 26.1 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3922. 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.