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Counsel and Accused
Purchased 1935
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Counsel and Accused
support: 651 × 813 mm
frame: 851 × 1026 × 104 mm
Purchased 1935
<p><b>Jean-Louis Forain</b><span> 1852-1931 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/forain-counsel-and-accused-n04789" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04789</span></a> </span><b>Avocat et Accusé</b><span>
(Counsel and Accused) 1908 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'forain 1908' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 32 (65 x 81)</span>
<br/><span>Purchased from Arthur Tooth and Sons (Lewis Publications 'A' Fund, Grant-in-Aid 'T' Fund and Clarke Fund) with the aid of the NACF 1935</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (purchased from the artist 15 November 1908); Félix Doistau, Paris, 1909; Doistau sale, Petit, Paris, 18 June 1928, lot 2, repr. as 'Le Prétoire'; bt. Jacques Rotil, Paris, 153,000 frs.; with Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, 1935</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Oeuvres de J.-L. Forain</i><span>, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, January-February 1913 (27) as 'Au Palais de Justice'; </span><i>Les Etapes de l'Art Contemporain III: Le Salon entre 1880 et 1900</i><span>, Galerie de la 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', Paris, April-May 1934 (78) as 'Le Prétoire'; </span><i>Selected Pictures by J.L. Forain (1852-1931)</i><span>, Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, March-April 1935 (17)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Lillian Browse, </span><i>Forain; the Painter 1852-1931</i><span>
(London 1978), p.114, repr. pl.48</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
</span><i>Art et D</i><span>é</span><i>coration</i><span>, XXXIII, 1913, p.10 as 'Suspension d'Audience' ; Charles Kunstler, </span><i>Forain</i><span>
(Paris 1931), pl.55 </span>
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<p><span>Though this picture has usually been known since at least 1928 as 'Le Prétoire' (The Court), it appears in the Bernheim-Jeune records under the title used here. A reproductive <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraving</span></a> made from it in colours by Pierre Labrouche and signed by Forain was published in an <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a> of 150. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.223-4, reproduced p.223</span>
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adults baby child children court crime and punishment crime and punishment document - non-specific family interiors lawyer leisure and pastimes man mother and child objects people public and municipal reading reading, writing, printed matter recreational activities society trial woman work and occupations