Etude de femme assise, en buste de profil (Study of a Seated Woman, Half-Length in Profile)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1903
Medium
transfer lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 30.3 × 21 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 54.6 × 38.3 cm (21 1/2 × 15 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3880
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...