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Jean-Louis Forain

1852 - 1931

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Jean-Louis Forain (23 October 1852 – 11 July 1931) was a French Impressionist painter and printmaker, working in media including oils, watercolour, pastel, etching and lithograph. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Louis Forain has received more than 79,992 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jean-Louis Forain is the 1,029th most popular painter (down from 982nd in 2019), the 2,871st most popular biography from France (down from 2,819th in 2019) and the 176th most popular French Painter.

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  • 80k

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  • 54.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Louis Forain ranks 1,029 out of 2,023. Before him are Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Christoph Amberger, Antoine Pesne, Ludwig Richter, Winslow Homer, and Franz Kline. After him are Li Cheng, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Laurent de La Hyre, Adriaen van der Werff, George Frederic Watts, and Benjamin West.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Jean-Louis Forain ranks 59. Before him are Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal, Henri Gervex, George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Otakar Ševčík, Francisco Moreno, and László Mednyánszky. After him are Dục Đức, Kodama Gentarō, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Robert Hausmann, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, and William Stewart Halsted. Among people deceased in 1931, Jean-Louis Forain ranks 65. Before him are David Bruce, Xu Zhimo, Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, Osachi Hamaguchi, Louise, Princess Royal, and Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia. After him are Hanns Hörbiger, Henri Mathias Berthelot, Nicolae Paulescu, Franz Schalk, Lya De Putti, and Frank Wigglesworth Clarke.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Louis Forain ranks 2,871 out of 6,770. Before him are Benoît Jacquot (1947), Drogo of Hauteville (1010), Antoine Brumel (1460), Gilbert Simondon (1924), Pierre Rode (1774), and Guillaume de Sonnac (1200). After him are Pierre Fauchard (1679), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Christian Ferras (1933), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739), and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-Louis Forain ranks 176. Before him are André Beauneveu (1330), Claude Gillot (1673), Jean-Jacques Henner (1829), Édouard Detaille (1848), Charles Angrand (1854), and Antoine Pesne (1683). After him are Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809), Laurent de La Hyre (1606), Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744), Georges Mathieu (1921), Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768), and Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850).

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