Art, literature & history
Forain gravant (1ère planche) (Forain Etching) (first plate)
1912
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 14.5 × 11.6 cm (5 11/16 × 4 9/16 in.) sheet: 25.7 × 20.5 cm (10 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3826
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Forain gravant (1ère planche) (Forain Etching) (first plate). Jean-Louis Forain; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Forain gravant (1ère planche) (Forain Etching) (first plate) — Jean-Louis Forain. 1912.
Medium: drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 14.5 × 11.6 cm (5 11/16 × 4 9/16 in.) sheet: 25.7 × 20.5 cm (10 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3826. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.