DrawingsFrench19th century

Woman Seated by an Easel

c. 1884-1888

Artists

Georges Pierre SeuratArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Conté crayon on beige modern laid paper

Culture

French

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

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.)

Provenance

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

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