L'avocat parlant au prévenu (2e planche) (The Lawyer Talking to the Prisoner) (second plate)
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 20.5 × 28 cm (8 1/16 × 11 in.) plate: 21.7 × 29 cm (8 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 37 × 50.2 cm (14 9/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3765
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...