Le café de la Nouvelle Athènes (The Cafe of the New Athens)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1876
Medium
etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.8 × 12 cm (6 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.) sheet: 50.6 × 32.6 cm (19 15/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3738
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...