A Summer Landscape

1883

Georges Seurat

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Georges Seurat

Artist, French, 1859 - 1891

This painting shows an expansive green and yellow grassland under a textured blue and white sky. The horizon line is high, separating the fields and clouds with a thin line of dark trees and small white buildings. The dark silhouette of a small person is in the grass to the left, and a tall tree is in the background on the far-left side. Small dashes of blue and peach paint decorate the grass, and there are streaks of red and peach in the sky. The brushstrokes are short and feathery, giving the scene a blurred quality.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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. 142, repro.

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Exhibition History

1900

  • Georges Seurat (1860-1891): oeuvres peintes et dessinées, La Revue Blanche, Paris, 1900, no. 21.

1908

  • Exposition Georges Seurat, 1859-1891, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1908-1909, no. 17.

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 142, repro.

Bibliography

1959

  • Dorra, Henri, and John Rewald. Seurat, l'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique. Paris, 1959: no. 72, repro.

1991

  • Grenier, Catherine. Seurat: Catalogue complet des peintures. Paris, 1991: no. 57, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20189665

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