Evanouissement à l'audience (Fainting at the Hearing)
Medium
etching and drypoint on on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
plate: 23.8 × 31.5 cm (9 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.) sheet: 38.4 × 54 cm (15 1/8 × 21 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3806
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...