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Jean-Louis Forain

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Pencil sketch of a man in a hat leaning over a reclining woman resting her head on him.

An Idyll

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Brown wash drawing of a soldier with a rifle in a trench, paired with a pencil sketch of a reclining woman on the reverse.

Soldier in a Trench (recto) Reclining Woman (verso)

1915

Brown wash drawing of a soldier in a cap holding a rifle beside a dark trench mass, with an empty pale sky above.

Soldier in a Trench (recto)

1915

Two loose sketches of a hospital scene with figures beside a bed, one in grey wash with pink, one in charcoal on tan paper.

In the Hospital (recto) Sketch for In the Hospital (verso)

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Loose grey and pink sketch of a doctor tending a patient in bed while a seated woman in a pink dress watches.

In the Hospital (recto)

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Drawing of a figure lying on an iron bed and another sprawled on the floor beside shoes in a bare room.

The Suicide

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Sketch of a uniformed soldier beside women in headscarves, with a kneeling woman embracing a child at left.

The Slavery in the North

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Sketch of a girl in red standing beside a kneeling figure, with smoke rising over a village in the distance.

The Germans Have Gone Away

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Pen-and-watercolor sketch of a seated man writing at a green-covered desk beside an inkwell and quill, dated July 1919.

At Versailles, July 1919

1919

Charcoal drawing of a man seated with bowed head beside a table with a bottle and food, below a barred window.

The Man Who Fired upon Clemenceau

c. 1919

Sketch of three bowed civilians beside a moustached officer in a spiked helmet, with French handwritten captions.

If they had been victorious - "You Have Two Hours in which to Sign"

c. 1919

Charcoal drawing of two alarmed women in the foreground, a city of rooftops under billowing smoke, and a uniformed figure at

"They Are Burning Everything - They must be about to Retreat"

c. 1919

Watercolor of a woman and child beside rubble and ruined buildings, with a crowd and soldier behind, above a pencil sketch of

Reconquered Territory (recto) Two Figures on a Road (verso)

c. 1919

Sketch of a woman in a dark cap holding a girl beside rubble and a fallen ladder on a ruined street.

Reconquered Territory (recto)

c. 1919

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

Pastel drawing of a woman in pink reading music beside a man in evening dress, with a conductor and orchestra under a chandel

The Orchestra

c. 1880

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

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a long skirt boarding a horse-drawn cab as a top-hatted coachman holds a lantern.

Woman Entering a Fiacre (recto)

late 1800s

Sketch of a seated female nude in brown chalk and white highlights on a pink sheet, head bowed, arm resting on knee.

Seated Nude

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

Pastel portrait of a woman with dark upswept hair and a pearl necklace, drawn on gray paper.

Ava Mendelsohn

fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s

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