Peasant with a Hoe
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: 14.61 × 24.13 cm (5 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2014.18.49
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist [1857-1891], until his death.[1] Jacques and Pierre Puybonnieux, Paris, until 1956.[2] (Wildenstein, Paris). Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia, by 1958;[3] bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].
[1] Atelier Seurat, posthumous inventory, no. 58.
[2] Jacques and Pierre Puybonnieux were the sons of Marie Puybonnieux, Seurat’s cousin, who probably inherited the painting from Seurat’s mother. They were probably the lenders to the 1933 Paris exhibition Seurat et Ses Amis, as they did lend a small panel formerly in the Adele and Arthur Lehman collection.
[3] Lent to Seurat Paintings and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, no. 30, as Peasant at Work.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1933
Seurat et ses amis, Exposition de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1933, no. 163.
1958
Seurat, Paintings and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, no. 30, as Peasant at Work.
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington,1966, no. 136, repro.
Bibliography
1959
Dorra, Henri, and John Rewald. Seurat, l'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique. Paris, 1959: no. 45, repro.
1991
Grenier, Catherine. Seurat: Catalogue complet des peintures. Paris, 1991: no. 35, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20189540