The Seine with Clothing on the Bank (Study for "Bathers at Asnières")
1883/1884
Georges Seurat
Artist, French, 1859 - 1891
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 17.15 × 26.35 cm (6 3/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2014.18.56
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Bernheim-Jeune, Paris). (Alex Reid & Lefevre, London). (De Hauke & Co., New York) on joint account with (Percy Moore Turner [c. 1877-1950], London), by 1930; (Jacques Seligmann & Co., Paris and New York), until 1935.[1] William A. Cargill [d. 1962], Carruth, Bridge of Weir, Scotland; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 June 1963, no. 44); purchased by (Acciarri) for (Hector Brame, Paris) for Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].
[1] See letter dated 17 June 1930 from Percy Moore Turner, De Hauke and Co. (Jacques Seligmann & Co. Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., Box 398, folder 20; copy in NGA curatorial files). De Hauke & Co., a subsidiary to Seligmann, was dissolved shortly thereafter and its stock absorbed into Jacques Seligmann & Co, which sold their half of the painting to Turner in 1935. See Jacques Seligmann & Co. Papers, Archives of American Art, Box 96, folder 23 (copies in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1930
Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijdgenooden, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1930, no. 272.
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 144, repro.
Bibliography
1959
Dorra, Henri, and John Rewald. Seurat, l'oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique. Paris, 1959: 89, no. 90, repro.
1991
Grenier, Catherine. Seurat: Catalogue complet des peintures. Paris, 1991: 58, no. 93, repro.
2014
Kelly, Franklin. "A Lasting Legacy: The Completion of an Unparalleled Gift." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 51 (Fall 2014): 12, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20189658