1951.70: Woman Seated by an Easel
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1951.70
- People
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Georges Pierre Seurat, French (Paris 1859 - 1891 Paris)
- Title
- Woman Seated by an Easel
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Jeune Fille au Tableau de Chevalet
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1884-1888
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297471
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Conté crayon on beige wove paper
- Dimensions
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30.5 x 23.3 cm (12 x 9 3/16 in.)
frame: 48.3 x 40.6 x 3.2 cm (19 x 16 x 1 1/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: (twice in black chalk and once in blue chalk, all three in the same hand), sign for English pounds (in blue chalk); 100 corrected to 300 (in red chalk)
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inscription: (twice in black chalk and once in blue chalk, all three in the same hand), sign for English pounds (in blue chalk); 100 corrected to 300 (in red chalk)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- The artist until 1891 (Posthumous inventory, dessin. no. 300). Probably given by the artist's family to the Symbolist critic Francis Vielé-Griffin in 1891. Félix Fénélon, Paris, by 1928. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Joseph Sullivan, New York, by 1929, until 1937, sold (through their sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, April 30, 1937, no. 202); to John H. Lutz for Maurice Wertheim, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1951
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906
- Accession Year
- 1951
- Object Number
- 1951.70
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings, Cézanne, Seurat, Picasso, Modigliani, Gauguin, Arthur B. Davies and Other Modern Artists...Property of the Estate of the Late Cornelius J. Sullivan..., auct. cat., American Art Association and Anderson Galleries (New York, April 29, 1937), p. 66, lot 202, repr.
- Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Today's Collectors: Modern Milestones", Art News (June 1946), vol. XLV, no. 4, repr. in b/w p. 31
- 19th Century French Drawings, exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, CA, 1947), no. 147 p. 89, repr.
- The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso, exh. cat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX, 1962), p. 62, pl. 28
- The Maurice Wertheim Collection, brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), checklist no. 31
- John O'Brian, Degas to Matisse: the Maurice Wertheim Collection, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Fogg Art Museum (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1988), no. 14, pp. 75-77, repr. p. 76
- Carrie Haslett and Michael Marlais, Neo-Impressionism: Artists on the Edge, exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME, 2002), p. 85
- Patrick Maynard, Drawing Distinctions: The Varieties of Graphic Expression, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, 2005), pp. 166-167, fig. 84
- Jodi Hauptman, Georges Seurat: The Drawings, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2007), no. 122, repr., p. 175
- Kathryn Brown, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890: A Space for the Imagination, Ashgate Publishing (Farnham, Surrey, 2012), pp. 97-98, fig. 3.7
- Elizabeth M. Rudy, "Researching the Wertheim Collection at the Harvard Art Museums", Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (Summer 2014), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 301-6
- Marieke Jooren, Suzanne Veldink, and Helewise Berger, Seurat, exh. cat., Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, 2014), repr. p. 126
- Michelle Foa and Yale University Press, Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision (New Haven, 2015)
Exhibition History
- 19th century French drawings, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 03/08/1947 - 04/06/1947
- The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 06/13/1962 - 09/02/1962
- European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
- Neo-Impressionism: Artists on the Edge, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, 06/27/2002 - 10/20/2002
- Georges Seurat: The Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 10/23/2007 - 01/07/2008
- Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2016 - 01/08/2017
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