Sur le lit (On the Bed)
c. 1909
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 27.4 × 32.1 cm (10 13/16 × 12 5/8 in.) plate: 28.9 × 33.6 cm (11 3/8 × 13 1/4 in.) sheet: 46.7 × 60.9 cm (18 3/8 × 24 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3777
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...