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Jean-Louis Forain

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Painting of a man with a cane speaking to a seated woman in green gown, with ballet dancers and top-hatted men behind them.

In the Wings

1899

Watercolor of a crowded Paris-style café with men in top hats, a woman in a fur-trimmed coat, and two children.

At the Cafe

1870

Painting of a courtroom with two seated men, a standing official, and a woman in green holding a paper on a bench.

The Petition

1906

Loose oil sketch of a soldier carrying a limp figure as a woman follows, with smoke and fire behind them.

The Requisition

c. 1919

Loose painted scene of a grassy race track with riders on horses, spectators, and a woman in pink under a cloudy blue sky.

The Race Track

c. 1891

Crowd of fashionable spectators in top hats and dresses watching horse races at a grassy racecourse under a pale sky.

The Races at Longchamp

c. 1891

Loose painting of a woman holding her hat in a gusty wind beside a child, with a misty shoreline behind them.

Départ, le coup de vent

1900

Painting of a courtroom with lawyers in black robes, spectators at a rail, and a man in a top hat beside a table of papers.

Witness Confounded

1926

Painting of elegantly dressed spectators in top hats and long dresses watching horse races at a green racecourse.

The Races at Longchamp

1891

Dark painted interior of a crowded courtroom with figures seated around a raised bench under a hanging lamp.

Recess of the Court

1872

Painting of a racecourse with riders on horseback, elegantly dressed figures in conversation, and billowing clouds over green

The Race Track

1891

Painting of a dim courtroom with seated men, a standing robed lawyer, and a woman in green holding a paper on a bench.

The Petition

1906

Painting of a seated ballet dancer beside a man in a top hat, with two dancers in tutus behind them backstage.

Danseuse et admirateur derrière la scène (Bailarina y admirador tras la escena)

Blue-toned painting of a top-hatted man on a lit stage and two white-tutu dancers seated in shadowed wings.

Backstage―Symphony in Blue

1900

Painting of a jockey on a chestnut horse surrounded by spectators in top hats and a woman with a red parasol at a racecourse.

The Horse Race

1888

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

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

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)

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

The Suicide

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

The Slavery in the North

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

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

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

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

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

Madonna and Children

1909