The Watering Can - Garden at Le Raincy, c. 1883

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 88

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 24.77 × 15.24 cm (9 3/4 × 6 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2014.18.51

Artists / Makers

Georges Seurat (artist) French, 1859 - 1891

Image Use

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Provenance

The artist's brother-in-law, Léon Appert [d. 1925], Paris; his son, Maurice Appert, Paris. M. Marcelin, Paris; (his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 31 May 1956, no. 25); (Paul Rosenberg, New York). Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia, by 1966;[1] bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].

[1] Lent to French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 141.

Associated Names

Appert, Léon
Appert, Maurice
Drouot, Hôtel
Marcelin M.
Mellon, Paul
Rosenberg & Co., Paul P.

Exhibition History

1933: Seurat et ses amis, Exposition de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1933, no. 160.

1951: Le Fauvisme, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, 1951, no. 16.

1958: Seurat, Paintings and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, no. 35.

1966: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 141, repro.

Bibliography

1959: Dorra, Henri, and John Rewald. Seurat, l'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique. Paris, 1959: 65, repro.

1991: Grenier, Catherine. Seurat: Catalogue complet des peintures. Paris, 1991: no. 67, repro.

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