La route d'Emmaüs (1ère planche) (The Road to Emmaus) (first plate)
1902/1907
Medium
drypoint on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 15.1 × 22.8 cm (5 15/16 × 9 in.) plate: 16 × 23.9 cm (6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 38 × 50.6 cm (14 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3772
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...