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Jean-Louis Forain

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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

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 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

Graphite sketch of two children looking over a crib rail, with a reclining figure in the lower left.

Children Looking over the Edge of a Crib

Charcoal sketch of two men beside a bed, one crouching and one standing, with a hammer on the floor and a caption below.

Peur de Bourreau! Qu'est-ce que tu attends?...

Loose watercolor sketch of a reclining woman with flowing hair, arm extended across an empty tan paper.

Farniente

Brown wash drawing of a nude woman with long hair lying across rocks by the sea, with a hat beside her.

Nude on Rocks

Loose ink and brown wash sketch of reclining figures and a standing figure with an umbrella beneath tall arches.

Sur le canape

Watercolor drawing of a bearded man holding a child while a woman in a long dress gestures beside him in a room with laundry.

Le Peril Anarchiste

c. 1897

Caricature of a barber shaving a reclining man holding a mirror, with tools on a table and a French caption.

Projet de Voyage

c. 1897

Watercolor drawing of a barren plain under dark clouds, with a broken tree stump and ruined buildings on the right.

Devastated Land (recto)

c. 1919

Watercolor of a devastated landscape under a stormy sky with a ruined building and bare tree; reverse has pencil figures.

Devastated Land (recto); Figures in a Landscape (verso)

c. 1919

Brown wash sketch of a woman carrying a child fleeing past a ruined town with smoke and rubble.

"The German troups received the formal order to spare private property"

The Dead Girl

1884

Woman in headscarf pointing across a pale plain toward a distant village with smoke, with a child beside her, in watercolor a

It Was Our House

Two barefoot children wade at the sea's edge under dark clouds, one holding a bundle, in a watercolor drawing.

There is corn in the sea!

Graphite and chalk drawing of a woman with upswept hair, alongside verso sketches of figures in red and black chalk.

Courtesan (recto) Figure Sketches (verso)

1906

Ink and wash drawing of a man asleep in an armchair beside a draped desk with a book, inkwell and quill.

Apres l'attentat, Juin '97

1897

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

Advocaat met klanten voor de rechtbank

1909

Sepia drawing of a nude woman washing at a table while a servant in an apron stands beside her in a room.

Naakte vrouw wast zich en bediende staat naast haar

1893

Etching of a young woman with raised arms standing on stretchers before a crowd of onlookers.

Lourdes, the miracle

1912

Lithograph of a speaker pointing toward a factory as a crowd of workers, women and children listens below a smoky dusk sky.

Staking van fabrieksarbeiders

1897

Lithograph of a robed bearded figure above grieving women and children amid rubble and a ruined church, with French captions.

Vrouwen in gebombardeerde kerk klagen Christus aan

1918

Lithograph of a woman nursing an infant in a chair beside a shattered window, with debris on the floor.

Vrouw geeft borstvoeding terwijl de ruiten springen

1916

Etching of a courtroom: a lawyer leans toward a seated woman holding a child, with a man at the bench behind them.

L'Avocat parlant au prévenu (The lawyer speaks to the accused)

1909

Charcoal sketch of a courtroom with robed figures conferring over papers at a railing, and a uniformed officer standing at le

Legal Advice

1915

Fan-shaped sketch of a woman in a tulle skirt facing a mustached man in a top hat, with another figure behind him.

Fan for the Gavarni Ball

1903

Invitation from the newspaper "Le Monde Parisien"

1880

Etching of theatre patrons: a man in a top hat, women in large feathered hats, and a child in the foreground.

The Foiles-Bergère, First Plate

1880