Art, literature & history
La fraction du pain (The Breaking of the Bread)
1902/1907
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in brown on laid Van Gelder paper
- Dimensions
- image: 27.5 × 24.1 cm (10 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.) plate: 29.7 × 25.8 cm (11 11/16 × 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 50 × 37.1 cm (19 11/16 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3796
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. La fraction du pain (The Breaking of the Bread). 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
La fraction du pain (The Breaking of the Bread) — Jean-Louis Forain. 1902/1907.
Medium: etching and drypoint in brown on laid Van Gelder paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 27.5 × 24.1 cm (10 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.) plate: 29.7 × 25.8 cm (11 11/16 × 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 50 × 37.1 cm (19 11/16 × 14 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3796. 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.