The Conversation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1875/79

Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin
French, 1823-1902

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin
Title: The Conversation
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1874–1884
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: M. Desboutin
Dimensions: 55.5 × 38 cm (21 13/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1935.71
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Clement-Janin, La Curieuse Vie de Marcellin Desboutin (Paris, 1922), p. 265.
Art News 53 (October 1954), ill.

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gérôme to Gauguin, 1954, cat. 91, pp. 35, 50 (ill.).

Possibly Durand-Ruel, Paris by 1922 [see Clement-Janin, 1922]. Julius H. Weitzner, New York by 1935; sold to the Art Institute, 1935.

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