En soirée (At an Evening Party)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1896
Medium
lithograph on wove Arches vellum paper
Dimensions
image: 32 × 25.2 cm (12 5/8 × 9 15/16 in.) sheet: 48.2 × 36.4 cm (19 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3854
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...