Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1910
Medium
lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 25.8 × 24.3 cm (10 3/16 × 9 9/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 50.7 × 33.6 cm (19 15/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3887
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...