Avocat compulsant un dossier (Lawyer Going through a Brief)
Medium
etching and drypoint in brown on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 23.6 × 29.6 cm (9 5/16 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 36.5 × 50.7 cm (14 3/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3786
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...