Le Traite des blanches (The White Slave Trade)
Jean-Louis Forain
1886 and 1909
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
plate: 19.8 × 13.9 cm (7 13/16 × 5 1/2 in.) sheet: 50.4 × 32.2 cm (19 13/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3744
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...