At the Concert Parisien
1887–88
Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)
Drawings
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 Café-concerts were popular places of entertainment for the middle classes in Paris during the late 1800s and usually featured singers or other forms of vaudeville entertainers. Georges Seurat created eight drawings depicting café-concerts, some showing known establishments. This drawing has an innovative viewpoint, in which we peer through the bowler hats of male viewers listening to a female singer on stage. Seurat typically used a black crayon manufactured by the Conté company, and its waxy quality allowed him to exploit the texture of paper to striking effect. Despite Georges Seurat's brief lifespan, he created a large number of drawings, working almost exclusively with the waxy Conté crayon and textured paper used for this sheet.
- Maker/Artist
- Seurat, Georges
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.4 x 23.6 cm (12 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- 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
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1958.344
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Aspects of Drawing, 19th and 20th Century Drawings, French Drawings, Drawings, Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings, Art and the Stage, Paper: The Continuous Thread, National Schools of Style, Georges Seurat: Zeichnungen, Georges Seurat, 1859-1891, French Drawings from the Collection, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Georges Seurat: The Drawings, Seurat’s Circus Sideshow, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Possibly <em>Exposition posthume Seurat. </em>La Revue Blanche, Paris (1892). [according to inscription on old backing]., Possibly <em>Les dessins de Georges Seurat</em> <em>1859-1891)</em>, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (November 29 - December 24, 1926). [according to inscription on old backing]., Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York (1937)., <em>Exhibition of Drawings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. </em>American-British Art Center, New York (January 5 - 22, 1944)., <em>Seurat: His Drawings.</em> Buchholz Gallery, New York (March 4 - 29, 1947).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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