Portrait de Renoir (1ère planche) (Portrait of Renoir) (first plate)
Medium
transfer lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 25 × 17.5 cm (9 13/16 × 6 7/8 in.) sheet: 35 × 27.6 cm (13 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3865
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...