The Friar
c. 1930
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
overall: 63.5 × 49.53 cm (25 × 19 1/2 in.) framed: 90.49 × 75.57 × 5.4 cm (35 5/8 × 29 3/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert and Mercedes Eichholz
Accession Number
2014.17.23
About the Artist
Georges Rouault
Georges-Henri Rouault was born on May 27, 1871, in a Paris cellar during the violent "Bloody Week" of the Paris Commune, when a stray shell destroyed his family's home in the working-class Belleville district. Raised by a carpenter father who worked at the Pleyel piano factory and a grandfather who collected prints by Honoré Daumier, Rembrandt, Courbet, and Manet, Rouault showed early artistic pro...