Le prévenu et l'enfant (The Prisoner and the Child)
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
plate: 39.6 × 30 cm (15 9/16 × 11 13/16 in.) sheet: 50 × 36.7 cm (19 11/16 × 14 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3762
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...