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: 18.4 × 26.5 cm (7 1/4 × 10 7/16 in.) plate: 21.9 × 28.7 cm (8 5/8 × 11 5/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 28.8 × 45.9 cm (11 5/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3748
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...