1943.918: Café-Concert (A la Gaîté Rochechouart)

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

Permissions

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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
• 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

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