About This Artwork

Mathieu Verdilhan
French, 1875-1928

The Cafe, n.d.

Black gouache and pastel, with brush and gray wash, charcoal, and touches of red gouache on ivory wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper
269 x 354 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "Verdilhan, Mathieu"
Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection, 1933.512

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Ownership History

Annie Swan Coburn (1856-1932), Chicago, by November 1932 [collection inventory in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.