Jean-louis Forain "the Visitor" Colored Pencil And Ink Circa 1900

Ambiguous scene where we see a man paying a woman with long teeth in front of a bedridden young girl. Colored pencil and ink, signed lower right. Size 27 x 24.5 cm on sight, gilt wood stick to be reviewed. Some accidents on the paper around the edge of the subject. Louis Henri Forain, known as Jean-Louis Forain, Jean Forain or Louis Forain, born in Reims on October 23, 1852 and died in Paris on July 11, 1931, is a French painter, illustrator and engraver. Soon, he was a regular at the salons of Nina de Callias and the Countess of Loynes, where he met the writers Maurice Barrès, Paul Bourget, and frequented Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. He began his career as a painter alongside the Impressionists, with whom he participated in several exhibitions between 1879 and 1886. He was very close to his elder Degas, who, speaking of his future funeral, would one day say: "I don't want a speech. Yes! Fairground artist, you will make one, you will say: he loved drawing." Degas, willingly scathing, would also say about a Fairground Dancer: "This young man flies on our own wings."