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Title:Landscape with Houses
Artist:Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris)
Date:1881–82
Medium:Conté crayon
Dimensions:9 13/16 x 12 9/16 in. (24.9 x 31.9 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Accession Number:1972.118.234
Maisons (Effet du soleil - Paysage aux maisons)
Inscription: On verso, in blue pencil: "G Seurat / L"
On verso, in red pencil (upside down): "273"
On verso, in graphite: "Verhaeren".
Possibly given by Mme Seurat mère to Emile Verhaeren (Belgian), Brussels, after Seurat's death in 1891; Léo Gausson (French), Paris, probably until his death in 1944; Georges Tardif (French); Madame Veuve Georges Tardif (French); Alice Tardif (French); Walter C. Baker (American), by 1960 until his death in 1971
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Walter C. Baker Collection of Drawings," June 2–September 4, 1960.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Seurat: Drawings and Oil Sketches from New York Collections," September 29–November 27, 1977.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "French Drawings Recently Acquired, 1975-1984," November 27, 1984–February 10, 1985.
Paris. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Seurat, 1859–1891," April 9–August 12, 1991.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," November 28, 1994–February 5, 1995.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Georges Seurat: The Drawings," October 9, 2007–January 7, 2008.
Kunsthaus Zürich. "Georges Seurat: Figure in Space," October 2, 2009–January 17, 2010.
Amsterdam. Van Gogh Museum. "Jean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern Art," October 4, 2019–January 12, 2020.
Saint Louis Art Museum. "Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí," February 16–September 7, 2020.
de Hauke 455; Paris-New York 1991, no. 50
Robert L. Herbert Seurat: Paintings and Drawings Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 16 January - 7 March 1958, and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 24 March - 11 May 1958. Edited by Daniel Catton Rich, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1958, cat. no. hors catalogue.
Robert L. Herbert "Seurat in Chicago and New York." Burlington Magazine. vol. 100, no. 662, May 1958, p. 146 (note 1).
César de Hauke Seurat et son oeuvre. vol. 2, Paris, 1961, cat. no. 455, pp. 72-73, ill.
Robert L. Herbert Seurat's Drawings. Shorewood Atelier, New York, 1962, p. 188 (catalogue entry), cat. no. 155, p. 177, ill.
Claus Virch Master Drawings in the Collection of Walter C. Baker. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962, cat. no. 109, p. 61, ill.
John Russell Seurat. Oxford University Press, New York and Toronto, 1965, fig. no. 77, pp. 86, 277, ill.
Fiorella Minervino, André Chastel L'opera completa di Seurat. Rizzoli, See also French edition, 'Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat', Italian. Milan, 1972, cat. no. D105, p. 113, ill.
Fiorella Minervino, André Chastel Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat. Ernest Flammarion, See also Italian edition, 'L'opera complete di Seurat', French. Paris, 1972, cat. no. D105, p. 113, ill.
Jacob Bean Seurat, Drawings and Oil Sketches from New York Collections. Exh. cat.: September 29 - November 27, 1977. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1977, cat. no. 4.
Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Jean-Marie Clarke Seurat. Editions Albert Skira (Geneva), Rizzoli (New York), French & English eds. published simultaneously by Skira &Rizzoli. Geneva and New York, 1990, p. 118, ill.
Françoise Cachin Seurat et le rêve de l'art-science. Librairie Gallimard, Réunion des Musées Nationaux , Peinture, Paris, 1991, p. 139 (table of illustrations), fig. no. 23hg, p. 23, ill.
Anne Distel Seurat. Chêne, Switzerland?, 1991, fig. no. 16, p. 148, ill.
Robert L. Herbert, Françoise Cachin, Anne Distel, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow Georges Seurat, 1859-1891. Exh. cat., Paris, Grand Palais, 9 April 1991 - 12 August 1991, and MMA, 24 September 1991 - 12 January 1992. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, English version; French version also published. New York, 1991-1992, cat. no. 50, p. 73, ill.
Michael F. Zimmermann, Jérôme Ferry, Solange Schnall, Karin Fanny Williams Les Mondes de Seurat, son oeuvre et le débat artistique de son temps. Fonds Mercator (Anvers), Albin Michel (Paris), French edition (also see German ed.). Antwerp and Paris, 1991, fig. no. 204, p. 115, ill.
Michael F. Zimmermann Piero della Francesca and His Legacy Proceedings of the symposium 'Monarca della Pittura: Piero and his Legacy', sponsored by the Center of Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Center; Washington, 4-5 December 1992. Edited by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., University Press of New England, Washington and Hanover, 1995, fig. no. 9, p. 281.
Robert L. Herbert Seurat : Drawings and Paintings. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001, fig. no. pl. 28, pp. 46, 50.
Jodi Hauptman, Richard Thomson, Richard Shiff, Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch, Bridget Riley George Seurat: The Drawings. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 2007, cat. no. 33, p. 250, ill.
Christoph Becker, Julia Burckhardt Bild Georges Seurat: Figure in Space. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, October 2, 2009-January 17, 2010, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, January 4-May 9, 2010. Ostfildern, 2009, ill. p. 98., cat. no. 53.
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