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Female Dancers, ca. 1910

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 65.5 x 81.5 cm
  • Inv. 1911-HG

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In his day, Jean-Louis Forain was widely known as a caricaturist. His work as a painter showed the influence of Edgar Degas, who was a close friend. Forain joined him in taking part in the impressionists’ exhibitions in Paris. This painting depicts two innocent-looking dancers who are attracting the desirous gaze of a somewhat older, sagging and drunken bourgeois gentleman. This was a subject Forain painted regularly. What is striking here is the contrast between the impressionist rendering of the dancers’ tutus and the more restrained painting style in the man’s sombre black eveningwear.

Artist

Jean Louis Forain RKD VIAF Wikidata
Reims 1852 - Paris 1931
painters (artists)AAT

Title Female Dancers
Date ca. 1910
Period 19th century
20th century
Location France TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: forain
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1911-HG
Acquisition credit long-term loan
Belgian State
Brussels
1911
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-HG
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/514/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11N36 Lust, Luxury, 'Luxuria'; 'Lussuria' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Deadly Sins Iconclass
31A231 standing figure Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31AA231 standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass
31D15 adult woman Iconclass
41D221(TOP HAT) head-gear: top hat Iconclass
48C813 set, scenery ~ stage Iconclass
48C84 the ballet, ballet performance Iconclass
48C8422 female dancer Iconclass
48C8422(+3) female dancer (+ types of art) Iconclass
54C4 Temptation; 'Tentatione' (Ripa) Iconclass
56B41 Fastidiousness, Epicurism Iconclass
56C2 Admiration Iconclass
School / Style Impressionist (style) AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 66)
Jean Forain (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.]
De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 177 (ill.))
D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 56-58, cat. 9)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 157 (ill.))
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