Témoins à l'audience (2e planche) (Evidence at the Hearing) (second plate)
Medium
etching and soft-ground etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 18.6 × 26.4 cm (7 5/16 × 10 3/8 in.) plate: 22 × 29.8 cm (8 11/16 × 11 3/4 in.) sheet (irreg.): 37.5 × 50.6 cm (14 3/4 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3747
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...