Paysage des environs de Versailles (Landscape in the Neighborhood of Versailles)
Medium
etching on laid Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
plate: 10 × 14.3 cm (3 15/16 × 5 5/8 in.) sheet (irreg.): 28.1 × 30.3 cm (11 1/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3783
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...