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  • Forains -- who was it that called Forain "Degas en caricature"?

    Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

  • To make another comparison, then, Grock is the Forain of vaudeville.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

  • There is a drawing by Forain which instantly obtained celebrity, and which represents two French soldiers talking together in the trenches.

    With Those Who Wait Frances Wilson Huard

  • The landscapes and boats and street-scenes of Marquet, with their joyously emphatic statement, their lively contrasts, and their power of giving you the pith of the matter in a few strokes, are about as valuable as the best things of Forain.

    Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

  • ” One winced at the word, as though it were a drawing of Forain.

    Eccentricity (1863) 1918

  • She is one of the very few painters whom Degas has advised, with Forain and M. Ernest Rouart.

    The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

  • He has lived alone, without pupils and almost without friends; the only pupils one might speak of are the caricaturist Forain, who has painted many small pictures inspired by him, and the excellent American lady-artist Miss

    The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

  • The revues burlesqued him; Sem caricatured him; Forain counterfeited him extensively in that inimitable series of Monday morning cartoons for Le Figaro: one said

    The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • The _Croquis Parisiens_, which, in its first edition, was illustrated by etchings of Forain and Raffaëlli, is simply the attempt to do in words what those artists have done in aquafortis or in pastel.

    Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905

  • He was the first to discover Raffaëlli, 'the painter of poor people and the open sky -- a sort of Parisian Millet,' as he called him; the first to discover Forain, 'le véritable peintre de la fille'; the first to discover Odilon Redon, to do justice to Pissaro and Paul Gauguin.

    Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905

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