Description

Scene from Bohemian life, Art Institute of Chicago

An idyll of Paris bohemian life: six young people lounge in a small, candle-lit room. At left, a seated woman is smoking, and a man, smoking, sits at her feet in the foreground. Two men are leaning closely over the other women. The couple at right are drinking wine. The room is crowded, with candles and bottles on a cabinet at left, food and wine on a table at front right, against which a slender stick leans, a picture, pipes, a broad brimmed straw hat and other objects hang on the wall.

Sitter

The sitters are unknown although the man at right looks a bit like James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) .