Pour l'homme de demain
Jean-Louis Forain
1914/1919
Medium
collotype on Arches laid paper
Dimensions
image: 28.3 × 44.3 cm (11 1/8 × 17 7/16 in.) sheet: 33.6 × 50.5 cm (13 1/4 × 19 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.4141
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...