Albert-Charles Lebourg
French, 1849-1928
Portrait of the Artist's Wife Asleep (Marie Guilloux)
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Albert-Charles Lebourg
French, 1849-1928c. 1880
Portrait of the Artist's Wife Asleep (Marie Guilloux)
Albert-Charles Lebourg French, 1849-1928 →chalkdrawings (visual works)
Date
c. 1880
Medium
Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
49 × 32.1 cm (19 5/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Margaret Day Blake and Julius Lewis endowments
Beginning his career as a landscape draftsman in Rouen, Lebourg won a post as a drawing instructor in Algiers, returning to France in 1873 to marry Marie Guilloux, seen here. Lebourg participated in the fourth and fifth Impressionist exhibitions, in 1879 and 1880, respectively. This drawing, made about that time, combines Bonvin’s Realism with the mysterious, impressionistic qualities of the medium.
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