Jean-Louis Forain was a French Impressionist painter and printmaker, working in media including oils, watercolour, pastel, etching and lithograph.
10 Facts About Jean-Louis Forain
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Jean-Louis Forain began his career working as a caricaturist for several Paris journals including Le Monde Parisien and Le rire satirique.
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Jean-Louis Forain was one of only "seven known recipients" to receive a first edition of A Season in Hell directly from Rimbaud.
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Jean-Louis Forain was the youngest artist to frequent and participate in the feverish debates led by Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas at the Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes in Montmartre.
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Jean-Louis Forain was the most famous caricaturist of the Belle epoque, and drew, among others, for the Figaro for more than 30 years.
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In 1891 Jean-Louis Forain married the painter Jeanne Bosc with whom he had a son, Jean-Loup, born in 1895.
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Jean-Louis Forain was one of France's most famous and revered artists during his time.
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Jean-Louis Forain was, perhaps, most highly respected for his numerous drawings which chronicled and commented on Parisian city life at the end of the 19th century.
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Followers and admirers of Jean-Louis Forain's work included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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On 22 January 2020 two works by Jean-Louis Forain that had been found in the Gurlitt stash in Munich, hidden by the son of one of Hitler's art dealer's Hildebrand Gurlitt, were restituted to the heirs of the Jewish art collector Armand Dorville.