Art, literature & history
Le Poilu (French Soldier Writing Home)
c. 1900
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black chalk on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 36.2 x 32.2 cm (14 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.102.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Le Poilu (French Soldier Writing Home). 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,_Le_Poilu_(French_Soldier_Writing_Home),_c._1900,_NGA_138467.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Le Poilu (French Soldier Writing Home) — Jean-Louis Forain. c. 1900.
Medium: black chalk on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 36.2 x 32.2 cm (14 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.102.1. Gift of Robert L. Rosenwald.
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.