Etude de femme nue, les mains croisées au-dessous de la tête (Study of a Nude Woman, Her Hands Crossed behind Her Head)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1900
Medium
transfer lithograph on laid Arches paper
Dimensions
image: 25.5 × 18 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 37.7 × 54.1 cm (14 13/16 × 21 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3879
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...