Artist: Jean-Louis Forain Title: Interieur de café, 1879 Now known as Au café (At the Café) Gouache on paper, 32.8 x 25.5 cm E. J. van Wisselingh and Co., Naarden, Holland

Forain is a caricaturist. He models himself on Daumier, but he has such a long way to go before he approaches this master. Henry Havard, Le Siècle, 27 April 1879