Le bouquet (The Bouquet)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1876
Medium
etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 12 × 16 cm (4 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 32.5 × 50.1 cm (12 13/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3736
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...