Un tableau de papa! (1ère planche) (A Painting of Daddy's!) (first plate)
Jean-Louis Forain
c. 1897
Medium
transfer lithograph printed chine collé on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 31.1 × 24.5 cm (12 1/4 × 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 45.9 × 32.5 cm (18 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3873
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...