Art, literature & history
Avant le repas à Emmaus (1ère planche) (Before the Supper at Emmaus) (first plate)
1910
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid Van Gelder paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 29.7 × 39.3 cm (11 11/16 × 15 1/2 in.) sheet: 38.9 × 54.6 cm (15 5/16 × 21 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3797
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Avant le repas à Emmaus (1ère planche) (Before the Supper at Emmaus) (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
Avant le repas à Emmaus (1ère planche) (Before the Supper at Emmaus) (first plate) — Jean-Louis Forain. 1910.
Medium: etching on laid Van Gelder paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 29.7 × 39.3 cm (11 11/16 × 15 1/2 in.) sheet: 38.9 × 54.6 cm (15 5/16 × 21 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3797. 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.