Portrait of the Artist's Wife Asleep (Marie Guilloux)
Albert Charles Lebourg
c. 1880
Medium
Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
49 × 32.1 cm (19 5/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
131384
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Beginning his career as a landscape draftsman in Rouen, Lebourg won a post as a drawing instructor in Algiers, returning to France in 1873 to marry Marie Guilloux, seen here. Lebourg participated in the fourth and fifth Impressionist exhibitions, in 1879 and 1880, respectively. This drawing, made about that time, combines Bonvin’s Realism with the mysterious, impressionistic qualities of the medium.