Art, literature & historyBourgeois Interior
1890/91
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping and black Conté crayon, with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper, fixed
- Dimensions
- 47 × 59.3 cm (18 9/16 × 23 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.218
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Bourgeois Interior — Georges Lemmen. 1890/91.
Medium: Charcoal, with stumping and black Conté crayon, with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper, fixed. Dimensions: 47 × 59.3 cm (18 9/16 × 23 3/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.