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Jean-Louis Forain

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Watercolor and ink sketch of a woman in a blue gown with a fan beside two men in top hats on a red floor.

At the Theater

1870

Watercolor of a woman in a red jacket riding a brown horse, with a shepherdess holding a staff in a grassy field.

Woman on Horseback and Shepherdess

1880

Loose watercolor and pen sketch of a woman in white beside a seated man in a dark suit in an interior.

Untitled (In the Dressing Room)

1870

Loose pastel sketch of a woman in a dark hat with a child's head resting against her, on a yellow-ochre ground.

Sketch of a Woman

1885/1890

Painting of a poor family on a city street beside a wooden fence, with factory chimneys and a smoky sky behind them.

The Stockade

probably c. 1908

Painting of a young ballet dancer in a pale tutu beside a flowering backdrop, with an older man in a top hat in shadow.

Behind the Scenes

c. 1880

Painting of a bowed woman in black holding a paper, standing in a green-walled room with framed pictures and flowers.

The Petitioner

c. 1910

Painting of a seated woman in a wide-brimmed black hat and dark dress against a moody, overcast landscape.

Portrait de la comtesse Anna de Noailles, née Brancovan (1876-1933), poétesse

1905

Painting of a woman in a black hat with binoculars in a red theatre box, with an audience visible behind her.

La Loge

1880

Painted bust portrait of a man with swept-back dark hair, white collar and bow tie, against a brown interior wall.

Autoportrait

1898

Painting of a tightrope walker in a red bodice and tutu balancing above a crowd of spectators at night.

Tight-Rope Walker

c. 1885

Half-length portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat and white collar, painted in loose brown tones.

Portrait de l'artiste

1906

Painting of a young ballet dancer in a pale tutu beside a man in top hat and evening dress, with flowers at left.

Behind the Scenes

1880

Pastel sketch of a woman in a dark hat with a child's head resting against her, on yellow-green tinted paper.

Sketch of a Woman

1885

Painting of a reclining ballerina on a red sofa while a man in evening dress holds a bouquet in a gilded room.

The Admirer

1872

Loose painting of elegant couples in evening dress at a ball, with red velvet balconies and a crowd behind.

Ball in the Paris Grand Opera

1880

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

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

An Idyll

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)

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

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

Seated Nude Woman from the Back

c. 1910

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)

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

Seated Nude

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

Ava Mendelsohn

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

Pencil drawing of a nude woman at a doorway beside a clothed older woman holding linen, with a bathtub in the foreground.

On sonne! Si c'est l'Anglais d'hier maman tu t'en iras!