Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jean-louis-forain-1103" aria-label="More by Jean-Louis Forain" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Jean-Louis Forain</a>
Tribunal
Purchased 1918
actions: expressive
adults
court
crime and punishment
fine arts and music
interiors
judge
lawyer
man
objects
painting
people
public and municipal
talking
woman
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
22 June 2016 – 4 September 2016
2016-09-04
22 June 2016 – 4 September 2016
2016-09-04
2016-06-22
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2016-06-22
Painters' Paintings
Loan-out
The Tribunal
support: 603 × 730 mm
frame: 741 × 866 × 72 mm
Purchased 1918
<p><b>Jean-Louis Forain</b> 1852-1931</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/forain-the-tribunal-n03288" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03288</span></a> <b>Le Tribunal</b> (The Court of Justice) <i>c</i>.1902-3</p>
<p>Inscribed 'forain' b.r. 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 23 ¾ x 28 ¾ (60.5 x 73) 
<br/>Purchased at the Degas sale (Special Grant-in-Aid) 1918 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Edgar Degas, Paris; sale of the Degas collection, Petit, Paris, 26-27 March 1918, lot 38 as 'Le Tribunal' 
<br/><i>Exh: Forain (1852-1931)</i>, Browse and Darby Ltd., London, May-June 1978 (15), dated <i>c</i>.1901 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Lillian Browse, <i>Forain; the Painter 1852-1931</i> (London 1978), p.50 
<br/><i>Repr: National Gallery, Millbank, A Record of Ten Years, 1917-27</i> (Glasgow 1927), p.88; John Rothenstein, <i>Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery</i> (London 1947), pl.51</p>
<p>Forain began to paint law-court scenes by 1902 and one of them, perhaps the first, was reproduced in the special Forain issue of <i>Le Figaro illustré</i> in February that year. The present work is clearly later than three dated <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of theatrical scenes of 1899 reproduced in the same issue and has a bolder, more incisive simplification which is said in the accompanying article to be characteristic of his most recent <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a>. Degas probably acquired it direct from the artist, but there is no entry for it in Degas' manuscript catalogue of his own collection.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.223, reproduced p.223</p>

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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults court crime and punishment fine arts and music interiors judge lawyer man objects painting people public and municipal talking woman work and occupations