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Forain worked as an etcher and lithographer, as well as a painter, acquiring a reputation for his satirical, and often biting, scenes of Parisian life. A friend of Manet and Degas, he participated in some of the Impressionists’ exhibitions from 1879 to 1886. His later paintings were mainly scenes from the law courts and of the ballet. In his law court paintings, Forain’s sympathies lie with ordinary people, who are trapped within a complex and impersonal legal system. Although these scenes are in the tradition of Daumier, Forain avoids obvious caricature (for example, of lawyers and judges) and focuses instead on specific, and often mundane, situations and exchanges. Here, a poor man, accompanied by a little girl and carrying a young child in his arms, hands a paper to his counsel.
The painting was owned by Henri Rouart, whose daughter Hélène was the sitter for Degas’s Hélène Rouart in her Father’s Study.
Title
Legal Assistance
Date
probably 1900-12
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 61 x W 73 cm
Accession number
NG3249
Acquisition method
Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917
Work type
Painting