id: 135341 accession number: 1958.344 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.344 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:44.887000 At the Concert Parisien, 1887–88. Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891). Conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper; sheet: 31.4 x 23.6 cm (12 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1958.344 title: At the Concert Parisien title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1887–88 creation date earliest: 1887 creation date latest: 1888 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Hauke 687 --- CREATORS * Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891) - artist Georges Seurat entered the École Municipale de Sculpture et de Dessin in Paris at the age of fifteen, where he studied with the sculptor Justin Lequien (1826-1882) and met Aman-Jean (q.v.). At the École des Beaux-Arts three years later he was taught by Henri Lehmann (1814-1882), a former pupil of Ingres (q.v.). He developed an interest in the color theory of Michel-Eugène Chevreul, who had postulated how the isolation and juxtaposition of colors can affect their perception. In the Louvre he studied the works of two master colorists, Rubens (1577-1640) and Delacroix (q.v.). Seurat attended the Fourth Impressionist Exhibit in 1879, and he later confessed to be particularly shocked by the works of Monet (q.v.) and Pissarro (q.v.). After spending a year in military service on the Breton coast, Seurat started experimenting with drawing, using conté crayon and heavily textured "Ingres" paper to build up his figures through a wide range of tones, avoiding contour outlines. He also probably read Ogden Rood's Théorie Scientifique des Couleurs, which further investigated the perception of color and advocated the use of pure color in painting. Seurat additionally undertook to analyze the optical and emotional effects of various color combinations in his paintings, initiating studies for the Bathers at Asnières (1883, National Gallery, London). This painting appeared at the 1884 Salon des Indépendants, where he met Paul Signac (1863-1935), who became an important spokesman for neo-impressionism. Seurat's next major painting, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86, Art Institute of Chicago), established him as the leader of the neo-impressionists. He began spending his summers on the Normandy coast, where he often started his large canvases that he would finish in his Paris studio during the winter. He was protective of his position as leader of the neo-impressionists, causing arguments with Pissarro and Signac in the late 1880s. His interest in using pure color influenced the symbolists as well as later "hard edge" painters of the modern era. --- measurements: Sheet: 31.4 x 23.6 cm (12 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream modern laid paper watermarks: * MICHALLET inscriptions: inscription: inscribed on verso, at bottom, in blue crayon: G. Seurat / L (?) [upside down]; on verso, right center, in red crayon: 299 [posthumous inventory number]; watermark, upper left: MICHALLET translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Aspects of Drawing opening date: 1961-01-10T05:00:00 Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961). title: 19th and 20th Century Drawings opening date: 1965-02-19T05:00:00 19th and 20th Century Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 24, 1965). title: French Drawings opening date: 1965-11-16T05:00:00 French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings opening date: 1979-05-31T04:00:00 Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-August 19, 1979). title: Art and the Stage opening date: 1981-05-22T04:00:00 Art and the Stage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 22-August 16, 1981). title: Paper: The Continuous Thread opening date: 1982-08-31T04:00:00 Paper: The Continuous Thread. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 31-October 24, 1982). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: Georges Seurat: Zeichnungen opening date: 1983-10-30T04:00:00 Georges Seurat: Zeichnungen. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, D-33602 Bielefeld, Germany (organizer) (October 30-December 25, 1983); Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland (March 27-May 15, 1984). title: Georges Seurat, 1859-1891 opening date: 1991-04-09T04:00:00 Georges Seurat, 1859-1891. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (September 24, 1991-January 12, 1992). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Georges Seurat: The Drawings opening date: 2007-10-23T00:00:00 Georges Seurat: The Drawings. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 23, 2007-January 7, 2008). title: Seurat’s Circus Sideshow opening date: 2017-02-17T05:00:00 Seurat’s Circus Sideshow. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 17-May 29, 2017). title: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2023-01-20T05:00:00 Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Possibly Exposition posthume Seurat. La Revue Blanche, Paris (1892). [according to inscription on old backing].', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Possibly Les dessins de Georges Seurat 1859-1891), Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (November 29 - December 24, 1926). [according to inscription on old backing].', 'opening_date': '1926-11-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York (1937).', 'opening_date': '1937-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Exhibition of Drawings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. American-British Art Center, New York (January 5 - 22, 1944).', 'opening_date': '1944-01-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Seurat: His Drawings. Buchholz Gallery, New York (March 4 - 29, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-03-04T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Studio of the artist [1859-1891], Paris date: 1888-1891 footnotes: *