La loge de la danseuse (2e planche) (The Dancer's Dressing Room) (second plate)
Medium
lithograph in brown on wove Arches vellum paper
Dimensions
image: 27.9 × 35.3 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.) sheet: 36.5 × 50.3 cm (14 3/8 × 19 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3847
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...