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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    In the Café by Fernand Lungren
    Fernand Lungren. In the Café, 1882–84. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001100

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    In the Café

    by Fernand Lungren

    Inscriptions

    Signed, lower left: "Lungren"

    Exhibition history

    New York, National Academy of Design, Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, Mar. 20–Apr. 25, 1915, cat. 364, 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, no. 7, 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. [downloadable checklist available]. Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 29, as The Café.

    Publications

    National Academy of Design, Illustrated Catalogue of the Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1915), cat. 364, as Au Café. Yang Zhigang, ed., Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 29, as The Café.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Fernand Lungren (American, 1857–1932)
    Date
    1882–84
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    79.7 × 104.8 cm (31 3/8 × 41 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    Paris
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
    Accession no.
    1947.85

    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 [according to letter from son Harold C. Milch, dated November 5, 1979, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Charles H. Worcester (1864–1956), 1945; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.

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