A Summer Landscape, 1883

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 15.88 × 25.08 cm (6 1/4 × 9 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2014.18.52

Artists / Makers

Georges Seurat (artist) French, 1859 - 1891

Image Use

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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.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

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.