1892
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
At an Evening Party is a 1892 ink by Jean-Louis Forain, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows five people at a social gathering. The lines are loose and quick, like a fast sketch. Three women and two men stand close together, dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The background is filled with light, scratchy strokes that look like movement or light. The artist used a technique called cross-hatching to create shadows and texture. The ink lines overlap in places, adding depth without much detail. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists use lines to build up form.
Jean-Louis Forain (French pronunciation: ; 23 October 1852 – 11 July 1931) was a French Impressionist painter and printmaker, working in media including oils, watercolour, pastel, etching and lithograph.
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