Le Christ portant sa croix (7e planche) (Christ Carrying the Cross) (seventh plate)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1910
Medium
etching and drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 20.2 × 22.7 cm (7 15/16 × 8 15/16 in.) sheet: 24.6 × 32.9 cm (9 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3831
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...