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Jean-Louis Forain

Jean-Louis Forain

1852–1931

Reims, France

PaintingImpressionism

Representation

None documented

5

Institutional Exhibitions

779

Works in Collection

807

Assets Indexed

3

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90%

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Movements

• Impressionism

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Impresario: Ambroise Vollard

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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Modern Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1944

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Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1936

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Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1930

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Painting in Paris

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1930

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Impressionism

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Painting

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Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York National Gallery of Art Tate

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Artworks (779)

The Rest in Egypt

The Rest in Egypt

1931 · Drypoint with additions in black charcoal or crayon on cream laid paper

Plate: 16.2 × 25 cm (6 7/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 33.2 cm (10 1/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Widow Selling Her Paintings

Widow Selling Her Paintings

1926 · Gouache, with touches of pastel, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper

44.1 × 59.3 cm (17 3/8 × 23 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Trickster Lawyers (recto) Figures in a Courtroom (verso)

Trickster Lawyers (recto) Figures in a Courtroom (verso)

1924 · Watercolor and black crayon, with touches of gouache, on cream wove paper (discolored to buff)

37.8 × 52.7 cm (14 15/16 × 20 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Menu Card for the Taverne Pousset

Menu Card for the Taverne Pousset

1924 · Reproduction of lithograph on cream wove paper mounted on white wove paper

Image: 16 × 33.5 cm (6 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 37.9 cm (16 × 14 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Men of Justice

1921 · brush and brown ink with brown wash on green laid paper

overall: 26.6 x 35.7 cm (10 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Requisition

The Requisition

1919 · oil on canvas

overall: 50 x 61 cm (19 11/16 x 24 in.) framed: 68 x 77.8 x 5.1 cm (26 3/4 x 30 5/8 x 2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

C'est la Paix. Tu vois pas un kepi!

C'est la Paix. Tu vois pas un kepi!

1919 · brush and black ink over black crayon on wove paper (tracing paper)

overall: 38 x 53.6 cm (14 15/16 x 21 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

a) Negotiations at the Trianon Palace, Versailles (recto); b) Study for Negotiations at the Trianon Palace, Versailles (verso)

a) Negotiations at the Trianon Palace, Versailles (recto); b) Study for Negotiations at the Trianon Palace, Versailles (verso)

1919 · a) brush and black ink over graphite on wove paper b) brush and black ink on wove paper

overall: 37.7 x 51.5 cm (14 13/16 x 20 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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Images

23 assets

At the Cafe (1875-1879)

Smithsonian Institution

Untitled (In the Dressing Room) ((1875-79))

Smithsonian Institution

Presentation of a Young College Student (1875-1879)

Smithsonian Institution

Woman on Horseback and Shepherdess (1880-1886)

Smithsonian Institution

At the Theater (1878)

Smithsonian Institution

Devastated Land (recto) (c. 1919)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Figures in a Landscape (verso) (c. 1919)

Cleveland Museum of Art

In the Hospital (recto) Sketch for In the Hospital (verso) (fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Henri Evenepoel

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Representation & Collections

In collection

Rijksmuseum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

National Gallery of Art

In collection

Tate

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