The Miracle before the Blessed Sacrament (fourth plate)
Jean-Louis Forain
1912/1913
Medium
etching and drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 22.5 × 28.4 cm (8 7/8 × 11 3/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 33 × 48.9 cm (13 × 19 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3822
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...