The Café Singer, 1876

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 24.13 × 31.75 cm (9 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)

framed: 34.29 × 41.91 × 4.45 cm (13 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.46

Artists / Makers

Romà Ribera Cirera (painter) Spanish, 1849 - 1935

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Inscription

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

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

American Art Association
Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Galerie Goupil
Stewart, William H.

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1980: That's Entertainment, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 13 July - 24 August 1980, no. 33, as Café Chantant, unpublished checklist.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 Unpublished manuscript, 1925: 162, no. 144, as by Jusepe de Ribera.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.