Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011106Evening
About the Artwork
In this drawing, Albert Lebourg depicted his mother, sister, and wife sewing by the dim light of an oil lamp. The three women sit around a table, close to one another but each absorbed in their work. Known for his experimentation with charcoal, Lebourg worked from dark to light, covering his sheet with the dark, powdery material and leaving only highlights visible.
Inscriptions
signed, lower right, in black ink: A. Lebourg [illeg.]; watermark, upper right: Lalanne
Provenance
by 1904–14: Roger Marx [1859–1913], Paris 1914: (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 12–13, 1914, no. 179, sold to Ernest Chapuis) 1914–1936: Ernest Chapuis [1870–1936], Paris, by descent 1936-?: Chapuis family collection ?-2021: Private collection, France, by descent 2021: (Joly Art Conseil, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 2021-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Albert-Charles Lebourg (French, 1849–1928)
- Date
- c. 1879
- Medium
- conté crayon and charcoal with stumping and white gouache on laid paper discolored to brown
- Dimensions
- Image: 31.8 x 48.5 cm (12 1/2 x 19 1/8 in.); Sheet: 31.8 x 48.5 cm (12 1/2 x 19 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession no.
- 2021.101
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