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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.918
People
Georges Pierre Seurat, French (Paris 1859 - 1891 Paris)
Title
Café-Concert (A la Gaîté Rochechouart)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: A la Gaîté Rochechouart
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1887-1888
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297448

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Conté crayon and white opaque watercolor on beige laid paper
Dimensions
30.7 x 23.4 cm (12 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
framed: 57 x 47.5 cm (22 7/16 x 18 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: top, black ink, black crayon, and white opaque watercolor: G Seurat
  • watermark: MICHALLET
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Mo[?] 13711[?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Émile Verhaeren, Brussels, by 1892 (d. 1916); M. and Mme Émile Laffon, Paris; their sale, Savoy Hotel, Zürich, April 8, 1938, no. 74 (bought in; CHF 141,000); acquired from Mme Laffon through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1939 (Fr 150,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.918
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lucie Cousturier, "Le dessins de Seurat", L'Art décoratif (March 1914), 201, pp. 97-106
  • Arsène Alexandre, "La Collection E. L.", La Renaissance (October 1933 - November 1933), vol. XVI, repr. p. 194
  • Anonymous, "À Zurich: La collection de Mr. [sic] et Mme Émile Laffon", Beaux-arts (March 4, 1938), 270, repr. pg. 5
  • Germain Seligman, The Drawings of Georges Seurat, Curt Valentin (New York, NY, 1947), pp. 24, 25, 85
  • Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 186, repr.
  • César M. de Hauke, Seurat et son Oeuvre, Grund (Paris, France, 1961), vol. 2, no. 686, repr. pp. 270, 271
  • Robert L. Herbert, Seurat's Drawings, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), pg. 144, no. 126, frontispiece
  • John Russell, Seurat, Thames & Hudson (London, England, 1965), pg. 237, fig. 204
  • J.H. Rubin, "Seurat and Theory: The Near-Identical Drawings of the Café-Concert", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (October 1970), pp. 237-43, repr. p. 238, fig. 1
  • Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "The Uses of Charcoal in Drawing", Arts Magazine (October 1980), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 128-135, p. 133, fig. 17
  • Erich Franz and Bernd Growe, Georges Seurat: Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Prestel Verlag (Munich, 1983), pp. 87 (fig. 23), 88, 193 (German edition); pp. 87, 193 (English edition)
  • Richard Thomson, Seurat, Phaidon (Oxford, 1985), pg. 197, repr. 201
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 290, p. 248, repr.
  • Wieland Barthelmess, "Das Café-Concert al Thema der französischen Maleri und Graphik des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts" (1987), Freien Universität Berlin, pp. 102-6
  • Jean Claude Lebensztejn, Chahut, Hazan (Paris, 1989), pg. 17, repr. pg. 19
  • Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "Tonal Drawing and the Use of Charcoal in Nineteenth Century France.", Drawing, The Drawing Society (New York, March-April 1990), 11, no. 6, pg. 133, fig. 17
  • John Rewald, Seurat: A Biography, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1990), ill. p. 185
  • Robert L. Herbert, Georges Seurat: 1859-1891, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1991), under no. 195, fig. 66 (French edition); pp. 296, 300-301, repr. (English edition)
  • Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, Dutton Studio Books, New York (New York, NY, 1991), pg. 297, pl. 105
  • Richard Tilston, Seurat, Bison Group (London, 1991), pg. 129, repr.
  • Michael F. Zimmermann, Seurat and the Art Theory of his Time, Fonds Mercator (Antwerp, 1991), pg. 366, fig. 508
  • Hajo Düchting, Georges Seurat, Taschen Verlag (Cologne, Germany, 1999), repr. p. 63 [color]
  • Peter Paquet, Helldunkel, Raum und Form: Georges Seurat als Zeichner, Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main, 2000), fig. 68, pp. 205ff.
  • Robert L. Herbert, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 2001), pp. 116, fig. 97, 182, n. 4
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 129, repr. (color)
  • Christopher Riopelle, Harvard's Winthrop Collection: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited (London, 2003), p. 39, cat. 26, ill.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 129, repr.
  • Oliver Elbs, Neuro-Esthetics: Mapological Foundations and Applications (Map 2003), Martin Meidenbauer (Munich, 2005), repr. p. 85 (detail)
  • Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler: Across Media, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and University of California Press (Washington, DC and Berkeley, 2006), p. 84, fig. 6 (p. 85)
  • Jodi Hauptman, Georges Seurat: The Drawings, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2007), p. 175, fig. 8 (p. 176)
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 589
  • Marieke Jooren, Suzanne Veldink, and Helewise Berger, Seurat, exh. cat., Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, 2014), repr. pp. 33, 127
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 89, 91, 282, repr. p. 91 as fig. 3

Exhibition History

  • Quatrième Salon des Indépendants, Pavillon de la Ville de Paris, Champs Élysées, Paris, 03/22/1888 - 05/03/1888
  • VIme exposition annuelle des XX, Musée d'Art Moderne, Brussels
  • IXe exposition annuelle des XX, [Unknown venue, Brussels], 02/01/1892 - 02/28/1892
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/02/2018 - 02/19/2018
  • Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017

Verification Level

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