Haymakers at Montfermeil
c. 1882
Artist, French, 1859 - 1891


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 88
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 15.56 × 24.77 cm (6 1/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2014.18.48
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Wikidata ID
Q20189492