Baignoire au théatre (Lower Box at the Theater)
Medium
etching and aquatint (zinc plate) on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 17.3 × 25.6 cm (6 13/16 × 10 1/16 in.) plate: 20 × 27.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 in.) sheet: 38 × 50.7 cm (14 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3754
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...