Woman in a Café

Jean-Louis Forainca. 1885

Details

Title: Woman in a Café
Creator: Jean-Louis Forain
Creator Lifespan: 1852 - 1931
Creator Nationality: French
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Death Place: Paris, France
Creator Birth Place: Reims, France
Date: ca. 1885
Physical Dimensions: 18 x 14 1/2 inches
Description: Coming of age as an artist in the 1870s and 1880s, Jean-Louis Forain would find his particular niche as the great recorder of Parisian life at that time, favoring the city’s many cafés, dance halls, and soirées as subjects for his incisive paintings and works on paper. While these works depict the fashionable people of Paris mainly in their pursuits of pleasure, they are also intended to poke fun at societal morals. Most likely a depiction of a courtesan waiting on a client, Woman in a Café also reveals Forain’s great admiration of his mentors Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas, both of whom painted similar subjects in the 1870s.
Provenance: Museum purchase by the Life Members Society in honor of John and Lucy Buchanan
Type: Oil paintings
Rights: Dixon Gallery and Gardens. For Terms and Conditions for use of this image please contact the Registrar at 901-761-5250.
Medium: Oil on panel

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