The End - Verdun
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1916
Medium
drypoint and etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 32.3 × 43.2 cm (12 11/16 × 17 in.) sheet (irreg.): 43.3 × 58.3 cm (17 1/16 × 22 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.4018
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...