Painter and illustrator, born in Reims, NE France. He exhibited four times with the Impressionists during 187996. Influenced by his friends Manet and Dégas, he painted mainly interior scenes, but from 1876 achieved popular fame through his illustrations for various satirical papers in Paris. These depicted Parisian life, and he later concentrated on social inequalities and injustices. He also illustrated the New Testament.
Jean-Louis Forain (October 23, 1852 - July 11, 1931) was a French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher.
Forain was born in Reims, Marne but at age eight, his family moved to Paris.
In 1891 Forain married the painter Jeanne Bosc with whom he had a son, born in 1895.
Forain was greatly influenced by Honoré Daumier plus friend and artist, Edgar Degas. In his later years, Forain created numerous scenes of the Law Courts and other Parisian institutions plus social satires on late 19th and early 20th century French life.
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