Scène de cabinet particulier (planche en largeur au lavis) (Scene in a Private Room) (horizontal plate)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1895
Medium
lithograph in brown on wove Arches vellum paper
Dimensions
image: 30.2 × 40.9 cm (11 7/8 × 16 1/8 in.) sheet: 38.9 × 52.5 cm (15 5/16 × 20 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3857
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...