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Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)

Georges SeuratLinkedCulture matchlcp-1955b7ee54c2

Date: 1884/85
Medium: Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper
Culture: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 150773

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During 1884 and 1885, Georges Seurat was hard at work on the most ambitious painting of his career, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 , now a centerpiece of the Art Institute’s collection of 19th-century French painting. The artist’s genesis of this large canvas involved many preparatory studies, which fall primarily into two groups: small compositional sketches and color studies on wooden panels, and nuanced Conté crayon drawings that explore both the empty landscape and the shapes of specific figures or figural groups. In this contemplative drawing, Seurat developed the expressive contours of the seated female figure holding a parasol that would ultimately occupy the center of the finished painting.

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Credit line: Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Provenance: Félix Fénéon, Paris, by 1905; sold through Henri Pierre Roche (1879-1959) to John Quinn (1870-1924), New York, 1923; Quinn estate, to 1925. Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), New York; Davies estate; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, April 16-17, 1929, Davies estate sale, lot 402, to C. W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, by 1934 [all provenance according to New York 1991]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1949 [on loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1949-1999; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1999].