Georges Seurat
The Forest at Pontaubert
188179.1 x 62.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Gift of Raymonde Paul, in memory of her brother, C. Michael Paul, by exchange, 1985
Literature
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 500,
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 164
Provenance
the artist's brother, Émile Seurat, Paris, until about 1900
Alexandre Natanson, Paris, about 1900–at least 1909
with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Otto von Waetjen, Paris, Barcelona, and Düsseldorf, by 1914–about 1919
with Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin and Düsseldorf
with Julio Kocherthaler, Madrid, in 1935
Kenneth Clark, Lord Clark of Saltwood, London, by 1937–died 1983
his estate, 1983–85, sold through E.V. Thaw to MMA
Other works by Georges Seurat
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884
1884-86
1884-86
Bathers at Asnières
1884
1884
Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy
1888
1888
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
1884
1884
The Mower
1881-82
1881-82