GEORGES SEURAT. Landscape at Saint-Ouen

GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891)

Landscape at Saint-Ouen

Landscape at Saint-Ouen. Artist: Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859-1891 Paris). Dimensions: Overall 6 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. (17.5 x 26.4 cm); painted surface 6 5/8 x 10 in. (16.8 x 25.4 cm). Date: 1878 or 1879. Dated to 1878 or 1879, this is the earliest known of Seurat's landscape oil sketches. His good friend, the artist Aman-Jean, remembered him painting it on site at Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris. Seurat introduced warm, orangey-brown hues into the composition by allowing the wood panel support to show through between his brushstrokes. This work was originally part of a double-sided panel that was divided after 1950 into two separate pictures. The other side, now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, features a landscape with a copy after Puvis de Chavannes's The Poor Fisherman (1881; Musée d'Orsay).

Oil on wood, mounted on wood

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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33.9 x 22.1 cm | 13.3 x 8.7 in (300 dpi)