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Document identity
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134248
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"The German troups received the formal order to spare private property"
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drawing
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1
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134248
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drawing
title
"The German troups received the formal order to spare private property"
date
fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
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Q80026771
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13390
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 31.9 x 47.8 cm (12 9/16 x 18 13/16 in.)
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France, late 19th-early 20th Century
accession
1956.729
Source extras
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black crayon and brush and brown, gray and red wash, heightened with white gouache
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"The German troups received the formal order to spare private property", fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s. Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931). Black crayon and brush and brown, gray and red wash, heightened with white gouache; sheet: 31.9 x 47.8 cm (12 9/16 x 18 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection, 1956.729
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cream(1) modern laid paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower right, in graphite: forain ; VERSO, along lower edge, in graphite: Après Douai - "Les troupes allemandes ont reçu l'ordre le plus formel d'épargner la propriété privée." [Solf.?] " Sans doute, l'ordre n'était / pas encore arrivé." ; lower right, in graphite: A2185
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The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
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2026-05-29 06:52:24.585000
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134248
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Drawings
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DR - French
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black crayon and brush and brown, gray and red wash, heightened with white gouache
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male
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1
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photo
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