Femme mettant son bas (Woman Putting On Her Stockings)
c. 1909
Medium
etching and aquatint on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 23.2 × 19.5 cm (9 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.) plate: 25.5 × 21 cm (10 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 48.7 × 38.1 cm (19 3/16 × 15 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3773
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...