Danseuse et Maître d'hôtel (Dancer and Headwaiter)
Medium
soft-ground etching, drypoint, and aquatint on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 32.1 × 28 cm (12 5/8 × 11 in.) plate: 33.8 × 29 cm (13 5/16 × 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 47.7 × 38.1 cm (18 3/4 × 15 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3749
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...