Femme nue passant sa chemise (Nude Woman Taking Off Her Chemise)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1910
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.6 × 13 cm (6 9/16 × 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 44 × 29.7 cm (17 5/16 × 11 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3803
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...