La fraction du pain (The Breaking of the Bread)
1902/1907
Medium
etching and drypoint in brown on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 27.5 × 24.1 cm (10 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.) plate: 29.7 × 25.8 cm (11 11/16 × 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 50 × 37.1 cm (19 11/16 × 14 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3796
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...