La sortie de l'audience (1ère planche) (Coming Out of the Hearing) (first plate)
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
plate: 33.7 × 29.1 cm (13 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 64.9 × 51 cm (25 9/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3761
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...