La rencontre sous la voute (3e planche) (The Meeting under the Arch) (third plate)
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 32.6 × 27.4 cm (12 13/16 × 10 13/16 in.) sheet: 49.2 × 34 cm (19 3/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3802
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...