The Reporter
Medium
Lithograph on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 28.5 × 37.7 cm (11 1/4 × 14 7/8 in.); Sheet: 42.3 × 54.5 cm (16 11/16 × 21 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
7992
Art Historical Context
Jean-Louis Forain's *The Reporter* is a striking lithograph on off-white wove paper, the essence of modern life through the artist's keen observational eye. Created around the late 19th early 20th centurydate not specified), this print measures 28.5 × 37.7 cm for the image and 42.3 × 54.5 cm for the full sheet. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department, it exemplifies Forain's mastery of lithography—a planographic printing technique that allowed artists to achieve rich tonal variations and fine details directly from drawn marks on stone or metal plates. Forain, a...