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Bourgeois Interior
Georges Lemmen (Belgian, 1865-1916)
1890/91
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping and black Conté crayon, with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper, fixed
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 47 × 59.3 cm (18 9/16 × 23 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Belgium
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Suzanne and Marjorie Pochter and Print and Drawing Funds
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This important study for a lost painting of the same name made its debut at the annual exhibition of the Belgian avant-garde society Les XX (The Twenty) in 1891. Georges Seurat had shown A Sunday on La Grand Jatte (1884/86; in the Art Institute’s collection) there just four years before. The most ambitious of Lemmen’s first Neo-Impressionist works, the composition depicts his sister, mother, and grandmother.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
