Le bain (planche en hauteur) (The Bath) (vertical plate)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1896
Medium
lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 32.5 × 26 cm (12 13/16 × 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 50.6 × 37 cm (19 15/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3858
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...