Schuffenecker's Studio

1889 · Painting · 73 × 92 cm

May one see it?

Unknown

Musée d'Orsay

Paris, France

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

In this state since: Sep 29, 2026
Source: The museum

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About the painting

The Schuffenecker Family or Schuffenecker's Studio is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, now in the Musée d'Orsay. It shows the artist's painter friend Émile Schuffenecker with his wife Louise Lançon and their two children Jeanne (born 1882) and Paul (born 1884). On the wall to the right of the window is a still-life with fruits and a Japanese print, reflecting the then-fashionable Japonism.

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Particulars

Accession number: RF 1959 8

In the catalog

Paintings French painting Impressionism 19th century

Sources

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Image: Musée d'Orsay — Paul Gauguin · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Meanwhile, in the life of Paul Gauguin

The whole life

1870s–1891 · Workplace
Paris
1886–1891 · Workplace
Pont-Aven
1887 · Workplace
Martinique
1887
Panama and Martinique
In 1887–1888 Gauguin visited Panama, where he observed the construction of the Panama Canal, and traveled on with the painter Laval to Martinique. Martinique helped bring about an evolution in his art, making Japanese influences apparent.
October – December 1888
Nine Weeks with Van Gogh in Arles
In 1888, at Theo's insistence, Gauguin worked for nine weeks with Vincent van Gogh in his Yellow House in Arles. Their relationship deteriorated: on the evening of 23 December 1888, according to Gauguin's later account, Vincent came at him with a razor and then cut off his own ear; Gauguin left Arles, and they never saw each other again.
1 April 1891
Departure for Tahiti
On 1 April 1891, after a final visit to his wife and children in Copenhagen, Gauguin sailed for Tahiti, intending to escape European civilization and "everything that is artificial and conventional." He spent his first three months in Papeete, then set up a studio in a bamboo hut at Mataiea.