Avocat compulsant un dossier (Lawyer Going through a Brief)
Medium
etching in blue on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 22.8 × 28.5 cm (9 × 11 1/4 in.) plate: 23.8 × 29.7 cm (9 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.) sheet: 37 × 49 cm (14 9/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3785
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...