It Was Our House — Jean Louis Forain

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Artist: Jean Louis Forain
Date: 1852
Medium: black crayon, gouache and watercolor; framing lines in black crayon
Location: Cleveland Museum of Art
Dimensions: [object Object]
Collection: Drawings
Culture: France, late 19th-early 20th Century
Credit line: The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection

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THE ARTIST

Jean Louis Forain

Jean-Louis Forain, a master caricaturist of the Belle Époque, captured Parisian life with a biting wit, from ballet dancers to courtroom dramas.

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