Art, literature & history
Le repos en Egypte (The Rest in Egypt)
1909
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 18 × 24.9 cm (7 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 29.4 × 43.4 cm (11 9/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3823
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Le repos en Egypte (The Rest in Egypt). 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
Le repos en Egypte (The Rest in Egypt) — Jean-Louis Forain. 1909.
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 18 × 24.9 cm (7 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 29.4 × 43.4 cm (11 9/16 × 17 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3823. 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.