Les Nuits de Paris
Jean-Louis Forain
1914/1919
Medium
collotype on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 41.1 × 28.3 cm (16 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.) sheet (irreg.): 38 × 54 cm (14 15/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.4142
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...