a) L'amour à Paris (Love in Paris) (recto); b) Untitled (verso)
c. 1893
Medium
a) lithograph on wove Arches vellum paper b) graphite on wove Arches vellum paper
Dimensions
image (recto): 37.5 × 28.5 cm (14 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.) sheet (irreg.): 52 × 39.4 cm (20 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3846.a-b
About the Artist
Jean-Louis Forain
Jean-Louis Forain was born Louis Henri Forain on October 23, 1852, in Reims, France, to a family of modest means; his father painted ornamental signs. The family relocated to Paris when he was eight, where young Forain developed a passion for drawing inspired by the sculptures of Reims Cathedral and the masters at the Louvre, which he began copying at age fourteen. He received drawing lessons from...