La repos en Egypte (The Rest in Egypt)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1916
Medium
etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 17.9 × 24.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 24.3 × 34.2 cm (9 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3813
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...