Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Abby Aldrich RockefellerCC0 (public domain) · 6,437 × 9,689 px · Art Institute of Chicago · IIIF

1884/85 · Art Institute of Chicago

Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)

Georges SeuratArt Institute of Chicago

Wander from here
Medium
Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paperArt Institute of Chicago
Dimensions
48 × 31.5 cm (18 15/16 × 12 7/16 in.)Art Institute of Chicago
Inventory no.
1999.7Art Institute of Chicago
Credit line
Bequest of Abby Aldrich RockefellerArt Institute of Chicago

Provenance

Where it has been

No ownership history recorded in our sources.

Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago

Paris, Salon des Artistes Indépendants-Rétrospective incorporée au Salon, Grandes Serres de la Ville de Paris, XXI, March 24-April 30, 1905, cat. 6. Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Rétrospecitve Georges Seurat," December 14, 1908-January 9, 1909, cat. 193. New York, Galerie C.W. Kraushaar, "Modern French Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings," October 5-28, 1929, cat. 55. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gough," November 8-December 7, 1929, cat. 67 (ill.). Cambridge, Mass., The Fogg Art Museum, "Loan Exhibition of French Drawings and Prints of the Nineteenth Century," 1934, cat. 66. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Modern Drawings," February 1944, p. 97, cat. 44. New York, Knoedler Gallery, "Seurat: Paintings and Drawings," April 19-May 7, 1949, n.p., cat. 51. Paris, Museé de L'Orangérie, "De David à Toulouse-Lautrec," 1955, cat. 91, pl. 88. The Art Institute of Chicago, "French Drawings: Masterpieces of Seven Centuries," 1955-1956, cat. 170. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat: Paintings and Drawings," January 16-March 7, 1958, p. 30, cat. 85; also traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 24-May 11, 1958. Paris, Musée de L'Orangerie, "De Clouet à Matisse," 1958-1959, n.p., cat. 188, pl. 190. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Seurat: Drawings and Oil Sketches from New York Collections," September 29-November 27, 1977, n.p., cat. 29. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Seurat," September 24, 1991-January 12, 1992, p. 214, cat. 144 (ill.); traveled to the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, April 9-August 12, 1991. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Seurat and the Making of 'La Grande Jatte'", June 16-September 19, 2004, cat. no. 71, p. 94 (ill.). New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” October 28, 2007–January 7, 2008, pp. 220-221, and 253, cat. 116 (ill.), cat. by Jodi Hauptman, et. al. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)", August 27, 2020 - January 3, 2021, p. 46, pl. 3, cat. by Starr Figura, et. al.
Identifiers & sources+
  • Art Institute of Chicago150773
  • inventory number1999.7