The Seine with Clothing on the Bank (Study for "Bathers at Asnières"), 1883/1884

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 88

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 17.15 × 26.35 cm (6 3/4 × 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2014.18.56

Artists / Makers

Georges Seurat (artist) French, 1859 - 1891

Image Use

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Provenance

(Bernheim-Jeune, Paris). (Alex Reid & Lefevre, London). (De Hauke & Co., New York) on joint account with (Percy Moore Turner [c. 1877-1950], London), by 1930; (Jacques Seligmann & Co., Paris and New York), until 1935.[1] William A. Cargill [d. 1962], Carruth, Bridge of Weir, Scotland; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 June 1963, no. 44); purchased by (Acciarri) for (Hector Brame, Paris) for Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].

[1] See letter dated 17 June 1930 from Percy Moore Turner, De Hauke and Co. (Jacques Seligmann & Co. Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., Box 398, folder 20; copy in NGA curatorial files). De Hauke & Co., a subsidiary to Seligmann, was dissolved shortly thereafter and its stock absorbed into Jacques Seligmann & Co, which sold their half of the painting to Turner in 1935. See Jacques Seligmann & Co. Papers, Archives of American Art, Box 96, folder 23 (copies in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Bernheim-Jeune
Brame, Hector
Cargill, William A.
Hauke, César Mange de
Mellon, Paul
Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd, Alex
Seligmann & Cie., Jacques
Sotheby's
Turner, Percy Moore

Exhibition History

1930: Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijdgenooden, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1930, no. 272.

1966: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 144, repro.

Bibliography

1959: Dorra, Henri, and John Rewald. Seurat, l'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique. Paris, 1959: 89, no. 90, repro.

1991: Grenier, Catherine. Seurat: Catalogue complet des peintures. Paris, 1991: 58, no. 93, repro.

2014: Kelly, Franklin. "A Lasting Legacy: The Completion of an Unparalleled Gift." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 51 (Fall 2014): 12, repro.