Le prévenu et l'enfant (The Prisoner and the Child)
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 38.7 × 29.1 cm (15 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.) plate: 39.8 × 30.1 cm (15 11/16 × 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 50.7 × 38 cm (19 15/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3763
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...