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Description: | IU, mounted; the original backboard had a hand-written ink inscription on its ve s. b. r. "Fergusson"; inscr. backboard "J. D. Fergusson, D3 Rue ND des Champs Paris II / Les Bourgeois"; inscr in pencil on backboard "94 / Best Work" CRE FERGUSSON, John Duncan; (Scottish; 1874-1961) Purchased from Merle E. Taylor at the same time as "After the Concert" in 1956.
Together with 'After the concert' this drawing is one of several illustrating the Parisian cafe world Fergusson loved so much.
It is a gentle caricature whose expressive line effectively conveys the over-fed rather pompous figures of the bourgeois, a favourite object of satire among Fergusson's contemporaries, including Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen and others. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | GENRE : FIGURE : FRANCE : SCOTTISH COLOURIST : CAFE : SOCIETY : SATIRE : PARIS : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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