Etude de femme assise (Study of a Seated Woman)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1903
Medium
transfer lithograph in black and red on laid Arches paper
Dimensions
stone: 40.8 × 30.8 cm (16 1/16 × 12 1/8 in.) sheet (irreg.): 55.6 × 43.8 cm (21 7/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3883
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...