La Borne - Verdun (The End - Verdun)
c. 1916
Medium
drypoint and etching on on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
image: 29.6 × 42.5 cm (11 5/8 × 16 3/4 in.) plate: 33.7 × 44.2 cm (13 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.) sheet: 47.5 × 60.8 cm (18 11/16 × 23 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.4037
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...