Femme assise, la tête dans la main droite (Seated Woman with Her Head Resting on Her Right Hand)
Medium
lithograph in red and black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 20.2 × 19.7 cm (7 15/16 × 7 3/4 in.) sheet: 33.9 × 45.3 cm (13 3/8 × 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3861
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...