Georges Cain

Training under Édouard Detaille is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Positions recorded include curator. Work by Georges Cain is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Musée Carnavalet and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour.

His grandfather, Pierre-Jules Mêne and his father, Auguste Cain were both animal sculptors. He studied with Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Georges Vibert, but was most heavily influenced by Édouard Detaille. In 1878, he made his debut at the Salon with Fumeur de l'époque Louis XV (Smoker from the Time of Louis XV) and continued to exhibit there on a regular basis until 1900. He illustrated the Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais and several works by Honoré de Balzac, including La Cousine Bette and La Bourse. His works may be seen in the Musée Baron Gérard in Bayeux, the Musée de Picardie in Amiens, and the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, where he served as Curator from 1897 to 1914. His brother Henri was a famous librettist. A square in Le Marais, near the Musée Carnavalet, has been named in his honor.

• Nooks and Corners of Old Paris, with a preface by Victorien Sardou, translated by Frederick Lawton, E. G. Richards (1907), reprinted by the University of Michigan Library • Walks in Paris, translated by Alfred Allinson, Macmillan (1909) • The Byways of Paris, translated by Louise Seymour Houghton, Duffield (1912)