L'ambulante au parapluie (Walker with an Umbrella)
c. 1880
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 12.7 × 8.5 cm (5 × 3 3/8 in.) plate: 16 × 12.1 cm (6 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.) sheet (irreg.): 32.5 × 25.8 cm (12 13/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3743
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...