Georges Seurat - The Mower



Georges Seurat
The Mower
1881-82
16.5 x 25.1 cm
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Robert Lehman Collection


Literature

Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 500 info
Richard R. Brettell, Paul Hayes Tucker, Natalie H. Lee, The Robert Lehman Collection, New York; Princeton, 2009, nr. 30


Provenance

Posthumous inventory, nr. 39
by descent, to the artist's brother, Émile Seurat, Paris, 1891 (until his death in 1906)
Mme Émile Seurat
by inheritance, to her daughter, Mme Mouton, Paris
Félix Fénéon, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Josef Stransky, New York, by 1929 (until his death in 1936)
estate of Josef Stransky, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1936-39
bought by M. Knoedler & Co., New York, September 1949
purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by Robert Lehman, New York, September 1949
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External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1975.1.206

Other works by Georges Seurat


Georges Seurat The Forest at Pontaubert
The Forest at Pontaubert
1881

Georges Seurat Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy
Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy
1888

Georges Seurat Study for
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
1884

Georges Seurat Lucerne, Saint-Denis
Lucerne, Saint-Denis
1885

Georges Seurat Angelica at the Rock (after Ingres)
Angelica at the Rock (after Ingres)
1878