Fernand Lungren
In the Café
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
Art Institute of Chicago
Room273Chicago, United States
On public display.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
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.
Art Institute of ChicagoCC BY 4.0
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1947.85
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — CC0
