Café Scene in Paris

1877

Henri Gervex French, 1852-1929

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Modern, Level 2, Central Wing

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About the Artwork

Cafes provided an important meeting place for artists, writers, and intellectuals in the nineteenth-century city. News, gossip, and ideas were shared as drinks were poured and pipes, cigars, and cigarettes were smoked. Here the artist painted a group portrait of some of his friends in their neighborhood cafe; he represents himself as the man in the center lighting his pipe.

Title Café Scene in Paris

Artwork Date 1877

Artist Henri Gervex

Life Dates 1852-1929

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 39 5/8 × 53 1/2 inches (100.6 × 135.9 cm) Framed: 48 × 64 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches (121.9 × 164.5 × 10.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1992.8

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Signed Signed and dated, lower left: H. Gervex | 1877

Provenance

private collection (France);
sold by (J. Pierre Selz, Paris, France, and Lynven, Inc., New York, New York, USA);
1992-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Gourvennec, Jean-Cristophe. Henri Gervex 1852–1929. Exh. cat., Galerie des Beaux Arts, Musée Carnavalet, and Musée des Beaux-Arts. Bordeaux, Paris, and Nice, 1992, pp. 100–113 (ill.) cat. no. 6.

Verchère, Paule. “D’Une Exposition A L’Autre: Henri Gervex (1852–1929).” Elle Decoration, no. 31 (June, July and August 1992): 206, p. 206 (ill.).

Doy, Guinevere. "Exhibition Review: Paris and Nice, Henri Gervex." Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1084 (July 1993): 497–498, p. 498, fig. 48 (ill.).

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Sogo Museum of Art, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, and Yawatahama Citizen Gallery. Yokohama, Kitakyushu, Fukushima, Fukui, and Yawatahama, 2001, pp. 60–61, no. 9 (ill.).

Impressionist Interiors. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Ireland. Dublin, 2008, no. 1, pp. 54–55 (ill.).

Murphy, Paula. "Exhibition Review: Impressionist Interiors, Dublin." Burlington Magazine 150, no. 1265 (August 2008): 563–564, p. 564, fig. 49 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Henri Gervex, Café Scene in Paris, 1877, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1992.8.