La sortie de l'audience (1ère planche) (Coming Out of the Hearing) (first plate)
Medium
drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 33.8 × 28.9 cm (13 5/16 × 11 3/8 in.) sheet: 53.1 × 37.1 cm (20 7/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3758
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jean-Louis Forain · 1852–1931
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...