Suspension d'audience (Recess of the Hearing)
Medium
lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 39.8 × 29.4 cm (15 11/16 × 11 9/16 in.) sheet: 52.1 × 35.3 cm (20 1/2 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3889
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...