#forain

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Jean-Louis Forain Joris-Karl Huysmans c. 1878

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"Le Carnet de Bal" pastel de Jean-Louis Forain (circa 1888) à l'exposition “Worth. Inventer la Haute Couture” du Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, mai 2025.

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At the Races, Jean-Louis Forain, 1885

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Jean Louis Forain | The Dancer’s Dressing Room (first and second plates, 1895 and 1894)

“Sex work was part of ballerinas' realities during the 19th century, an era in which money, power and prostitution mingled in the glamorous and not-so-glamorous backstage world of the Paris Opera.”

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Jean-Louis Forain

French Impressionist painter Jean-Louis Forain was born #onthisday in 1852. Forain began his career as a caricaturist for a number of Paris journals, eventually enrolling in the École des Beaux Arts and studying under esteemed French painters and sculptors.⁠ ⁠ Known for his quick wit, Forain befriended many artists, poets, and writers. He was the youngest artist to frequent and contribute to the debates led by Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas at the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes in Montmartre.⁠ ⁠ Seated Dancer by Jean-Louis Forain, c.1880s. Oil on canvas.⁠

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Photo : Quentin Vernault

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derviche © McTanné

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In the Theatre Foyer, Jean-Louis Forain, 1883