Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"



Georges Seurat - Study for



Georges Seurat
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
1884
15.6 x 24.1 cm
Oil on wood
Inscribed in blue pencil, by Paul Signac (on the verso): Seurat # 96
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. 31


Provenance

The artist, until 1891
posthumous inventory, nr. 96
inherited by the artist's mother, Mme Ernestine Seurat, Paris, 1891
her gift to Lucien Pissarro, London, 1891
Félix Fénéon, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Maurice Lonquety, Paris, by 1933
his widow, Mme Lonquety, Paris, by bequest, until 1954
with Wildenstein & Co., New York, 31 May — November 1954
acquired from Wildenstein & Co., New York, by Robert Lehman, New York, November 1954
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External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1975.1.207

Other works by Georges Seurat


Georges Seurat View of Fort Samson
View of Fort Samson
1885

Georges Seurat Study for Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp
Study for Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp
1885

Georges Seurat A Man Leaning on a Parapet
A Man Leaning on a Parapet

Georges Seurat The Lighthouse at Honfleur
The Lighthouse at Honfleur
1886

Georges Seurat Port-en-Bessin. Entrance to the harbour
Port-en-Bessin. Entrance to the harbour
1888