Les instructions pour la journée (The Instructions for the Day)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1897
Medium
color transfer lithograph on laid Arches paper
Dimensions
image: 33 × 28.1 cm (13 × 11 1/16 in.) sheet: 54.9 × 39.1 cm (21 5/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3862
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...