L'avocat pourchassé (The Lawyer Pursued)
Medium
lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
stone: 42.8 × 31.5 cm (16 7/8 × 12 3/8 in.) sheet: 52 × 35.1 cm (20 1/2 × 13 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3895
Art Historical Context
Jean-Louis Forain's *L'avocat pourchassé (The Lawyer Pursued)*, a 1915 lithograph on laid paper, captures the artist's signature satirical edge. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosen Collection, this print measures 42.8 × 31.5 cm on the stone, inviting viewers into Forain's world of sharp social observation. A French artist (1852–1931) linked to the Impressionist circle through friends like Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet, For excelled in caricature and prints that skewered Parisian society, blending humor with critique. Lithography, Forain's chosen medium here, was a revolutionary 19th...
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...