Pietà (1ère planche) (Pietà) (first plate) — Jean-Louis Forain

Jean-Louis Forain

Pietà (1ère planche) (Pietà) (first plate)

1910

Dating
Exact year
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 23.8 × 31.8 cm (9 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.) sheet (irreg.): 28.6 × 41 cm (11 1/4 × 16 1/8 in.)
Collection no.
1943.3.3809
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Louis Forain. Pietà (1ère planche) (Pietà) (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

Pietà (1ère planche) (Pietà) (first plate) — Jean-Louis Forain. 1910.

Medium: drypoint on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23.8 × 31.8 cm (9 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.) sheet (irreg.): 28.6 × 41 cm (11 1/4 × 16 1/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3809. 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.

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