Le Traite des blanches (The White Slave Trade)
1886 and 1909
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
plate: 19.9 × 14 cm (7 13/16 × 5 1/2 in.) sheet (irreg.): 47.2 × 35.5 cm (18 9/16 × 14 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of E. Gerald Lamboley)
Accession Number
2015.143.1360
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...