Haymakers at Montfermeil, c. 1882

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 88

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 15.56 × 24.77 cm (6 1/8 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2014.18.48

Artists / Makers

Georges Seurat (artist) French, 1859 - 1891

Image Use

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Provenance

Odilon Redon [1840-1916], Paris; his son, Ari Redon [1889-1972], Paris. (Galerie Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris). Georges Lévy, Paris, in 1937.[1] private collection, Paris, in 1957.[2] Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].

[1] The painting was exhibited at Seligmann’s in Paris in 1938. In 1937, Lévy was selling through Seligmann two Renoirs now in the collection of the NGA (1956.4.1-2) so it is possible he sold the Seurat through Seligmann as well. However, to date no documents concerning the Seurat have been discovered in the records of Jacques Seligmann and Co. at the Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.

[2] Lent from a private collection in Paris to Seurat, Musée Jacquemart-Andre, Paris, 1957, no. 6.

Associated Names

Galerie Jacques Rodrigues-Henrigues
Lévy, Georges
Mellon, Paul
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Redon, Ari
Redon, Odilon

Exhibition History

1938: Le Paysage à Travers les Ages, Galerie André Seligmann, Paris, 1938, no. 137.

1957: Seurat, Musée Jacquemart-Andre. Paris, 1957, no. 6.

1958: Seurat, Paintings and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, no. 23.

Bibliography

1959: Dorra, Henri, and John Rewald. Seurat, l'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique. Paris, 1959: no. 10, repro.

1991: Grenier, Catherine. Seurat: Catalogue complet des peintures. Paris, 1991: no. 43, repro.