The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 5, 2023

There is corn in the sea!

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Jean Louis Forain

(French, 1852–1931)

France, late 19th-early 20th Century

Brush and black ink and watercolor over black crayon

Support: Beige(1) wove paper discolored to yellow-beige in area of image

Sheet: 37 x 53.1 cm (14 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.)

The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection 1956.731

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in graphite: forain ; by artist, lower center, in brown watercolor: __ il y a du blé dans la mer! .... ; lower left, in graphite: Guerre Sous-Marine (1) ; lower center, in graphite: "On va dire à Maman que c'est plein de blé, l'eau de mer." ; VERSO, lower center, in graphite: 14

Exhibition history

none in wp file or departmental file

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1956.731