In the Café
Fernand Lungren (American, 1857–1932)
1882–84
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
In 1882 Fernand Lungren traveled to Paris, where he briefly attended classes at the Académie Julian before abandoning formal training in favor of direct observation of the city and its people. Here, a fashionably dressed woman sits alone and alert. Her presence is a sign of modern Paris’s changing social environment, in which café culture offered women new opportunities for leisure in public spaces. Although Lungren employed a dense, hard-edged style, his interest in modern life and the effects of light (here both gas and electric lighting) was nevertheless indebted to French Impressionism.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 79.7 × 104.8 cm (31 3/8 × 41 1/4 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 4 exhibitions
Provenance
- Lester Field (born Lester Rosenfield, 1886–1937) and Louis Ritman (1889–1963), Chicago and Paris, by 1937; sold to Albert Milch, Milch Gallery, New York, 1937; sold to Charles H. Worcester (1864–1956), 1945; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Exhibitions
- New York, National Academy of Design, Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, Mar. 20–Apr. 25, 1915, as Au Café.
- IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, as Sarah Bernhardt at the Café de la Paix.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat..
- Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, as The Café.
