Matinée de septembre

Spotted: After Google Image Search, uploaded to own Pinterest, 06 October 2018

Matinée de septembre or "September Morn" by French painter and illustrator and Académie des Beaux-Arts member Paul Émile Chabas was considered the artist's most famous work, rather a succès de scandale ("success due to its notoriety") when the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice protested against its entry in the United States on the grounds of immorality.

Chabas said that September Morn was his wife's favorite. He died a widower in 1937 in a room where reportedly there hung a reproduction of September Morn painted from the artist's memory.

The work was eventually donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and was displayed in the Great Hall in September 1957. It traveled to several exhibitions, some scheduled on or through the month of September, such as in California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco), Portland Art Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, and Municipal Art Gallery (Los Angeles).


[This post is antedated: 20181008]