# The Artist's Wife Fishing, in The Rotunda

Jean Louis Forain painted this in 1896, aged 44. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A woman in a bright pink dress casts a line from a grassy bank, a small red float resting on the still water, while a second woman in a brown dress and white apron stands behind her holding a baby in a bonnet. A small dog runs up from behind.

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## The work

- Date: 1896
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 95.5 x 101 cm (37 5/8 x 39 3/4 in.) framed: 121 x 126.1 x 7 cm (47 5/8 x 49 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985.64.19
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jean Louis Forain](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-louis-forain), French, 1852–1931

Forain was a friend and follower of Degas and showed in four of the Impressionist exhibitions. He became best known as a caricaturist, contributing incisive drawings to the Paris press that mocked the bourgeoisie, the courts and politics, often with sharp captions.

3 works in the collection.

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