Sur le lit (On the Bed)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1909
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
plate: 28.8 × 33.2 cm (11 5/16 × 13 1/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 45.4 × 56.6 cm (17 7/8 × 22 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3776
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...