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Details
The work is signed in the upper right-hand corner.
Sizes:
Frame: 55 × 47 cm | 21.7 × 18.5 in
Artwork: 15 × 9.5 cm | 5.9 × 3.7 in
This etching or woodblock-style print depicts a woman in profile wearing a wide-brimmed hat. The composition is executed in a characteristic Parisian style, reminiscent of Belle Époque themes and the influence of Edgar Degas.
The work is believed to be an early 20th-century or vintage reproduction. It reflects a fine composition and the artist’s traditional aesthetic approach.
Provenance
Private Collection, Germany.
Condition Report
The item is in good condition, presented in a decorative frame, and protected under glass. The reverse of the frame includes a label marked “D/OCT/7 FORAIN” and other inventory markings.
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Jean-Louis Forain
Jean-Louis Forain was born in Reims on 23 October 1852 and grew up in Paris, where he studied briefly under Jean-Léon Gérôme and the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and copied in the Louvre. A friend of Manet and above all of Degas, whose influence on him was lasting, he showed with the Impressionists at four of their exhibitions between 1879 and 1886.
His subjects were the Paris of the Belle Époque: the Opéra and its dancers, the racecourse, the café-concert, the law courts and the women of the demi-monde, drawn with a quick, sardonic eye.
Forain was one of the great satirical draughtsmen of his time, publishing thousands of drawings in Le Figaro, Le Courrier français and his own papers Le Fifre (1889) and, with Caran d’Ache, Psst…! (1898). He was a prolific etcher and lithographer; after 1900 his painting turned to religious subjects and to the courtroom, and during the First World War his drawings of the front were widely reproduced.
Elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1923, he died in Paris on 11 July 1931. His work is in the Musée d’Orsay, the Petit Palais and museums across Europe and America.
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