Déclaration d'amour (Declaration of Love)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1880
Medium
drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 26.1 × 20.8 cm (10 1/4 × 8 3/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 31.1 × 25 cm (12 1/4 × 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3829
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...