Sketch of Two Scenes with Male Figures / Jean Louis Forain
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.500
- Title
- Sketch of Two Scenes with Male Figures
- Artist
- Jean Louis Forain
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1852-1931
- Medium and Support
- graphite on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1875-1931
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Île-de-France (region)
- Ville de Paris, Département de (department)
- Paris (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Île-de-France (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Ville de Paris, Département de (department)
- Creation Place 5
- Paris (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
- Style/Group/Movement
- Early Modernist
- Dimensions
- 65.09 cm x 50.17 cm (25 5/8 in. x 19 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Physical Description
- This sheet contains sketches for two different unidentified scenes. The upper scene depicts a square-jawed, mustachioed man standing in front of a railing or counter. Two figures, suggested only by their contours, lean upon the rail or counter from the other side. Between them appears an unidentified object. The lower scene represents two men standing on a platform. The nearer figure, wearing shorts, bends forward to lift something. Another, larger objects sits in front of him. Behind him stands a figure in a long coat. This second figure seems to address the heads of an audience behind and below the platform.
- Subject Matter
- Jean-Louis Forain had a long and distinguished career both as an associate of Édouard Manet and the Impressionists and as an illustrator and satirist. The subjects of these two sketches remain unidentified, but they nevertheless display Forain’s fascination with depicting urban social life and public spectacles throughout his career.
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- descriptors
- drawing and drawing techniques
- groups of people
- groups of people by activity
- image-making processes and techniques
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2462 x 2851
- File Size
- 80 KB
- Record
- 2009/1.500
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.500/2009_1.500.jpg
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"Sketch of Two Scenes with Male Figures; Jean Louis Forain." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.500/2009_1.500.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
