Ambroise Vollard, quatre esquisses (Ambroise Vollard, four sketches)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1910
Medium
lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 44 × 33.3 cm (17 5/16 × 13 1/8 in.) sheet: 57.2 × 46.4 cm (22 1/2 × 18 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3893
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...