# Bourgeois Interior

- By: Georges Lemmen (Belgian, 1865-1916)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Suzanne and Marjorie Pochter and Print and Drawing Funds
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229007)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e895c95a26428e34e4634fc15bfa4992.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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