About This Artwork

Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin
French, 1823-1902

The Conversation, 1875/79

Oil on canvas
21 13/16 x 14 15/16 in. (55.5 x 38 cm)
Inscribed lower right: M. Desboutin
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection, 1935.71

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

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

Publication History

Clement-Janin, La Curieuse Vie de Marcellin Desboutin (Paris, 1922), p. 265.

Art News 53 (October 1954), ill.

Ownership History

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