Danseuse accotée contre un portant (avec des figurants) (Dancer Leaning against an Upright (with extras))
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1897
Medium
transfer lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 32 × 24 cm (12 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 44.1 × 29.5 cm (17 3/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3864
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...