1. Jeanne Forain was the wife of the painter and caricaturist Jean-Louis Forain.
11 Facts About Jeanne Forain
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Jeanne Forain was born in the Marais district of Paris on 25 January 1865.
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Jeanne Forain specialized in portraits, particularly favouring children as subjects.
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Jeanne Forain's style was influenced by Velazquez, Quentin de la Tour and Hogarth.
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Jeanne Forain exhibited a pastel portrait entitled Tete de jeune-fille at the Salon de la Societe des artistes francais in 1889, and participated in the Salon du Champs de Mars beginning in 1890.
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Jeanne Forain's subjects were generally members of her family and the literary and artistic circles to which she and her husband belonged.
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In 1904 Henri de Regnier wrote to Andre Gide that Jeanne Forain was painting a portrait of Pierre Louys.
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In 1904 Jeanne Forain encountered a troupe of puppeteers whose wagon had fallen into a ditch on the road near Deauville.
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Jeanne Forain took them to her house on the rue Spontini in Paris, where she organized a benefit performance for them.
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Jeanne Forain sculpted most of the puppets' heads and bodies, while her society friends sewed costumes for the approximately 80 figures, representing dancers, princesses, jugglers and other characters.
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The first comprehensive solo exhibition of works by Jeanne Forain was held in the summer of 2016 at the Musee Alfred-Canel in Pont-Audemer, France.