Le petit déjeuner (planche en largeur) (Breakfast) (horizontal plate)
Medium
lithograph on wove Arches vellum paper
Dimensions
image: 29.5 × 38.3 cm (11 5/8 × 15 1/16 in.) sheet: 37.8 × 50.6 cm (14 7/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3849
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...