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In the Café
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001100
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