Scène d'audience (les deux avocats) (Scene of a Hearing (The Two Lawyers))
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1915
Medium
lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 32.3 × 25.3 cm (12 11/16 × 9 15/16 in.) sheet: 49 × 35.7 cm (19 5/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3874
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...