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Artist: Jean Louis Forain
Le Resesquement a l'Advocats (The Legal Reservation)
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Resesquement a l'Advocats
(The Legal Reservation)
Pastel on paper, c. 1910
signed lower right
Image size: 10 3/4 x 14 inches
Frame size: 23-1/2 x 26-1/2 x 2-3/8 inches
Condition: ...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Pastel
Le Lever - Impressionist Figures in Interior Pastel by Jean Louis Forain
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figurative pastel on board circa 1895 by sought after French impressionist painter Jean Louis Forain. The piece depicts a man asleep in a bed while a woman stands at the foot of the bed getting dressed. The room is dimly lit by the bedside lamp.
Signature:
Signed upper right
Dimensions:
Framed: 22"x26"
Unframed: 15"x19"
Provenance:
Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier
Jean Forain was the son of a painter and decorator and was apprenticed to a visiting card engraver. He studied briefly under Gérôme and Carpeaux at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and regularly visited the Louvre, where he copied works by the masters. It is said that for a time he made a precarious living by selling small drawings in the style of Grévin. He went on to collaborate on various publications as a draughtsman and columnist, starting in 1876 on La Cravache and then collaborating on the newspapers Le Journal Amusant, Le Figaro and L'Écho de Paris. This introduced him to the diverse worlds of Paris society - the world of the theatre, of shows, and of literature - where he wryly noted the habits and shortcomings particular to each. This led him to follow a route very characteristic of this period, already seen in the work of Steinlen, Caran d'Ache and Toulouse-Lautrec in the journals La Pléiade, La Vogue and La Revue Blanche.
His work draws a picture of the society of the period, not in a strictly imitative fashion but in the form of the 'dessin-charge' or mild caricature. In 1880 he illustrated Parisian Sketches...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Pastel, Board
Loin du Front
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Loin du Front
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 85/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Sheet size: 15 x 22.25 inche...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
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Lithograph
Les Pessimistes
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Les Pessimistes
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 85/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Sheet size: 15 x 22.25 inc...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
Paris Ville du Front
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Paris Ville du Front
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 i...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
l' Emprunt Pour la Victoire
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: l' Emprunt Pour la Victoire
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
Si Ca Continue
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Si Ca Continue
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 inches
...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
Vous Allez Nous Faire des Allemands
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Vous Allez Nous Faires des Allemands
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size pape...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le Pays Reconquis
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Le Pays Reconquis
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size p...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
Devant la Mort
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Devant la Mort
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 inche...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ils Parlent de nNotre Emprunt
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Ils Parlent de Notre Emprunt
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le Basileus Chasse
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: lLe Basileus Chasse
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 in...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
Chez les Basileus
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Chez les Basileus
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 inch...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
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Lithograph
Il ne Faut pas Oublier
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Il ne Faut pas Oublier
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22....
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pour en Finir
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Pour en Finir
Year: Circa 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
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Lithograph
L'Ambulante
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in 1852 in Reims, Marne, French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher Jean-Louis Forain enrolled at the École des Beaux Arts and studied under Jean-Léo...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Jean Louis Forain Art
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Etching
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