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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.33
People
Georges Pierre Seurat, French (Paris 1859 - 1891 Paris)
Title
The Barge
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Péniche
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1882-1883
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295766

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Conté crayon on beige wove paper
Dimensions
24 × 31 cm (9 7/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
framed: 46 × 53.7 × 4.4 cm (18 1/8 × 21 1/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: from old backing board, now removed, red crayon or pencil: B.
  • label: from old backing board, now removed, old tag with printed and handwritten text: [handwritten, blue ballpoint:] Saturday / Sept. / 3d / 1977 / [printed:] FROM / MRS. HERBERT N. STRAUS / 1107 FIFTH AVENUE / NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028 / To [handwritten, blue ballpoint:] For Mr. Jacob Beau / Curator of Drawings & Prints - / Metropolitan Museum of Art of / New York, N. Y. / On Loan 1977 to 1978.
  • label: from old backing board, now removed, printed and handwritten text: [printed:] FROM / MRS. HERBERT N. STRAUS [underlined in red pencil] / 1107 FIFTH AVENUE / NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10028 / [handwritten, blue ballpoint:] Wednesday [underlined in red pencil] / [printed:] RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED / POSTMASTER - THIS PARCEL MAY BE OPENED FOR POSTAL INSPECTION IF NECESSARY / FOR [handwritten, blue ballpoint:] Sept - 7" - 1977 / Attention of Mr Beau. / Directior of Master Drawing. / on Loan
  • label: from old backing board, now removed, handwritten brown ink: "La Peniche-" - Georges Seurat. / Barge on the Seine at Night / Paris - 1880-1883. / Size 9 3/4" x 12 1/2". / Conte-crayon - / Collections Paul Signac / [illegible text] Signac / Bought Jan. 1951.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Signac (1863-1935), Paris, by 1926; [1] to Berthe Paul Signac (née Roblès), Paris. [Valentin Gallery, New York]. [Parke-Bernet, New York, March 30, 1949, lot 26]. Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, 1951, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978

Notes
[1] Listed as Collection P.S. in 1926 Bernheim-Jeune exhibition.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, Harvard Class of 1903
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
1978.33
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Les Dessins de Georges Seurat, 1859-1891, exh. cat., Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, 1926), cat. no. 53
  • César M. de Hauke, Seurat et son Oeuvre, Grund (Paris, France, 1961), vol. 2, pp. 124-125, no. 534, repr. p. 125
  • Michael F. Zimmermann, Seurat and the Art Theory of his Time, Fonds Mercator (Antwerp, 1991), p. 112, repr. as ill. 191
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 31 under "Conté crayon"
  • Carrie Haslett and Michael Marlais, Neo-Impressionism: Artists on the Edge, exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME, 2002), p. 85
  • Simon Kelly and Maite van Dijk, ed., Millet and Modern Art from Van Gogh to Dalí, exh. cat., Van Gogh Museum and Saint Louis Art Museum (Amsterdam/Saint Louis, 2019), pp. 103, 204, pl. 93
  • Simon Kelly and Maite van Dijk, ed., Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí; alternate title: Jean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern Art, exh. cat., Thoth Publishers (Bussum, 2019), pp.97-104, p. 99, no. 93, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Les dessins de Georges Seurat, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 11/29/1926 - 12/24/1926
  • Neo-Impressionism: Artists on the Edge, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, 06/27/2002 - 10/20/2002
  • 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/14/2017 - 11/16/2017
  • Millet and Modern Art from Van Gogh to Dali, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 02/16/2020 - 05/17/2020

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