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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.918
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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
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Conté crayon and white gouache on buff 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
gouache: G Seurat
watermark: MICHALLET
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inscription: verso, graphite: Mo[?] 13711[?]
Provenance
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
[email protected]
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
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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, MA, 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
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)
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A
Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art
Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York,
NY, 1985), no. 290, p. 248, repr.
Richard Thomson, Seurat, Phaidon (Oxford, 1985), pg.
197, repr. 201
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
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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 (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
(New York, NY, 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.
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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/University of California
Press (Washington, DC/Berkeley, 2006), p. 84, fig. 6 (p.
85)
Jodi Hauptman, Georges Seurat: The Drawings, exh.
cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York (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
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
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