Le colporteur juif (The Jewish Peddler)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1900
Medium
transfer lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 22 × 18.5 cm (8 11/16 × 7 5/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 36.9 × 47.7 cm (14 1/2 × 18 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3869
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...