Scène de cabinet particulier (planche en largeur) (Scene in a Private Room) (horizontal plate)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1905
Medium
transfer lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 23 × 28.3 cm (9 1/16 × 11 1/8 in.) sheet: 33.5 × 50.8 cm (13 3/16 × 20 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3891
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...