View From an Attic Room

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View From an Attic Room, c. 1890. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 55.2 × 46.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism

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Museum title: View From an Attic Room
Artist: Gustave Loiseau (French, 1865–1935)
Date: c. 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 55.2 × 46.4 cm (21 3/4 × 18 1/4 in.); Framed: 72.4 × 63.5 × 7.7 cm (28 1/2 × 25 × 3 in.)
Credit line: Bequest of Florence S. McCormick
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1865–1935

Post-Impressionism c. 1886–1905

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.