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Jean-Louis Forain

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Sketch of a woman in a ruffled dress seated in an armchair, head resting in her right hand, in red and black chalk.

Seated Woman, Head in Right Hand

1897

Etching of a woman holding a wrapped bouquet while a man in a top hat stands facing her in an interior.

The Bouquet

c. 1876

The Toff with a Bouquet

c. 1876

Lithograph of a man holding a framed picture in a shop window beside a woman in a shawl, with dense dark hatching.

Laffitte Street

c. 1892

Sketch of a soldier in a fez standing beside huddled, shawl-wrapped figures and a child, with smoke over hills.

In Greece

1897

Red chalk sketch of a woman in a ruffled dress leaning over a chair, face hidden by her hair.

Woman Seated

c. 1867

Loose charcoal-style drawing of a seated man in a cap bent over, writing a letter on his knee.

Prisoner of War Writing a Letter

1910s

Etching of three cloaked figures talking beneath a stone arch, with village houses and a bare tree in the background.

Encounter Under the Vault

1910

Fan-shaped print of a ballerina in a tutu facing a man in a top hat, with another figure behind him, in pink and brown tones.

Bal Gavarni Fan

1903

Seated Nude Woman from the Back

c. 1910

Etching of a seated mother holding an infant with two standing children beside her, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Madonna and Children

1909

Etching of a seated woman in a headscarf holding a sleeping infant, a kneeling figure beside her and a basket on the ground.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

1909

Etching of two women in a dressing room, one in a corset before a vanity table with a mirror and bottle.

Dancers in their Dressing Room

c. 1876

Lithograph of a woman in a hat at a table with a man in a top hat and wine bottles beside her in a restaurant.

Au restaurant (At the Restaurant)

1890

Lithograph of a ballet dancer in a tutu bending to tie her slipper beside a standing attendant and a dark folding screen.

Danseuse rattachant son chausson (Dancer Tying Her Slipper)

c. 1891

Lithograph of a man reading a newspaper beside a woman in a shawl, framed by a shop window, by Jean-Louis Forain.

Rue Laffitte (Laffitte Street)

c. 1892

Sketch of a bearded man holding papers beside a woman in a long dress, with stacked papers on the floor and a wall picture.

"J'ose pas encore aller le décrocher...ça lui fera trop de peine." ("I don't dare take them down...it would hurt him…

c. 1892

Lithograph of a top-hatted man with a cane beside a counter where a clerk serves a bearded man and a woman in a fur stole.

Chez l'huissier (At the Bailiff's)

c. 1891

Sepia wash drawing of a man leaning toward a seated woman at a table with a wine bottle and book in a private room.

Scène de cabinet particulier (planche en largeur au lavis) (Scene in a Private Room) (horizontal plate with wash)

c. 1896

Sketch of a bearded man and a woman in a long dress standing beside stacked papers in a loosely drawn interior.

I Don't Dare Take Them Down...It Would Hurt Him Too Much

c. 1892

The Dead Girl

1884

Loose charcoal sketch of a seated man in a cap leaning forward to write on a small sheet on his knee.

The Clothing of the Prisoner of war

c. 1915

Etching of three women mourning around a reclining figure beside a wooden cross and a basin of water.

Pieta

1910

Etching of courtroom witnesses: a bearded man and another figure at a barrier, with women seated in the foreground.

Témoins à l'audience (Witnesses to the audience)

1908

Etching of a café interior with men in top hats seated at a table and a standing woman and man at left.

Interieur van een café

1876

Etching of Jean-Louis Forain leaning over a table to examine a plate, in a room with a window and column.

Zelfportret van Jean-Louis Forain een etsplaat bekijkend

1862

Etching of a woman with two children leaving a courtroom, a robed judge at the bench and a bailiff behind them.

Vrouw met twee jonge kinderen mogelijk een rechtszaal verlatend

1909

Etching of a bearded lawyer in a cap leaning over a woman and child seated before a courtroom barrier.

Advocaat met klanten voor de rechtbank

1909

Sketch of a sick woman in bed, a girl beside her and a bearded man in a top hat leaning over, from a 1898 magazine cover.

Man keert terug bij zijn zieke vrouw en kind

1898

Satirical cover of Psst...! showing a woman gathering flowers at a fence while a man in a long coat watches, 1898.

Vrouw plukt bloemen voor Émile Zola op het graf van Ravachol

1898

Caricature of a bearded man in a top hat standing by a bed with a seated figure, from the 1898 cover of Psst...!

Karikatuur van Edmond de Rothschild die terugkeert van een diner

1898

Caricature of a hunched figure in a dark cloak and hat beside a table of shoes, the cover of Psst...! from 1898.

Karikatuur van Joseph Reinach als Joodse schooier

1898