The Café Singer

1876

Romà Ribera Cirera

Painter, Spanish, 1849 - 1935

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Goupil et Cie, Paris), as Concert Populaire;[1] sold 7 March 1876 to William H. Stewart [1820-1897], Paris and Philadelphia; (his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 3-4 February 1898, 1st day, no. 14, as Café Chantant); William Andrews Clark [1839-1888], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] This painting is stock number 11013 in the Goupil et Cie Records, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Livres no. 8, 1875-1876, page 143. The records indicate that Goupil purchased the painting on the same day that he sold it to Stewart.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1878

  • Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1878, no. 105, as Café chantant.

1978

  • The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978.

1980

  • That's Entertainment, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 13 July - 24 August 1980, no. 33, as Café Chantant, unpublished checklist.

2005

  • Prelude to Spanish Modernism: Fortuny to Picasso, Albuquerque Musuem; Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 21 August 2005 - 26 February 2006, no. 4, repro., as Café chantant/Popular Concert.

Bibliography

1925

  • Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Unpublished manuscript, 1925: 162, no. 144, as by Jusepe de Ribera.

2004

  • Myers, Julia Rowland. “J.Alden Weir’s Essay on ‘Modern Life’: in the Park of 1879." The American Art Journal 34/35 (2003/2004): 160-161, 164 fig. 17.

Inscriptions

lower right on back of chair: R. Ribera '76

Wikidata ID

Q46630315

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