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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.919
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People
Georges Pierre Seurat, French (Paris 1859 - 1891 Paris)
Title
Woman Knitting
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Women Sewing
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1882
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Black crayon with metallic silver paint and black chalk
on tan laid paper
Dimensions
32.2 x 24.5 cm (12 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Mme Seurat (d. 1899); to Léon Appert (the artist's
brother-in-law), by descent; to Maurice Appert, Paris,
1925 (his son). Étienne Bignou, Paris, 1927. [Knoedler
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and Co., New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop,
December 19, 1922 [through Martin Birnbaum],
bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.919
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Lucie Cousturier, Seurat, G. Crès et Cie (Paris, 1926), pl.
51 (as "Tricotant")
Christian Zervos, "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la
peinture moderne", Cahiers d'art (1927), 2, nos. 7-8,
repr. pg. 278 (as "collection particulière Etienne
Bignou")
Gustave Kahn, Les dessins de Georges Seurat (2 vols.),
Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, 1928), vol. 2, pl. 125
Claude Roger-Marx, Seurat, G. Crès et Cie (Paris, 1931),
pl. 26 (as "Woman Knitting")
Daniel Catton Rich, Seurat and the Evolution of "La
Grande Jatte", University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL,
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1935), pg. 59, no. 2
Germain Seligman, The Drawings of Georges Seurat,
Curt Valentin (New York, NY, 1947), pp. 16, 23, 72, no.
40, pl. 29
Hermann Jedding, Seurat, Uffici Press (Milan, 1957?),
pg. 6
César M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre (2 vols.),
Grund (Paris, 1961), vol. 2, fig. 512
Robert L. Herbert, Seurat's Drawings, Shorewood
Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), pp. 41, 178, fig 40
Pierre Courthion, Georges Seurat, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
(New York, 1968), pg. 51 (as "Knitting"), repr.
Dorothy W. Gillerman, Gridley McKim-Smith, and Joan
R. Mertens, Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a
Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA,
1969), cat. no. 120, repr.
Fiorella Minervino and A. Chastel, L'Opera Completa di
Seurat (Milan, Italy, 1972), no. D109, pg. 112
Norma Broude, "Night Light on Seurat's 'Dot': Its
Relation to Photo-Mechanical Color Printing in France
in the 1880s", Art Bulletin (December 1974), 56, pp.
585, repr. 586 fig. 5
Norma Broude, "The Influence of Rembrandt
Reproductions on Seurat's Drawing Style: A
Methodological Note", Gazette des beaux arts
(October 1976), ser. 6, 88, pp. 158-59, fig. 6
Norma Broude, ed., Seurat in Perspective, Prentice Hall
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1978), pg. 170, illus. facing pg.
102, fig. 2
Sarane Alexandrian, Seurat, Crown Publishers Inc. (New
York, 1980), pg. 21
Erich Franz and Bernd Growe, Georges Seurat:
Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Prestel Verlag (Munich, 1983),
pg. 59, fig. 11 (German edition); pp. 59, fig. 11, 60, 63
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(English edition)
Richard Thomson, Seurat, Phaidon (Oxford, 1985), pg.
24, repr. pg. 25, pl. 17
Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, Seurat, Skira/Rizzoli (New
York, 1990), repr. pg 32 (as "Woman Knitting")
Michael F. Zimmermann, Seurat and the Art Theory of
his Time, Fonds Mercator (Antwerp, 1991), pg. 63, fig.
88
Joseph C. Skrapits, "Shades of Gray: The Drawings of
Georges Seurat", American Artist (March 1992), vol.
LVI, no. 596, p. 71, repr. p. 46
[Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard
Expository Writing Program), Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA, 1994 - 1995)., repr. p. 35
Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and
Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 31 under "Conté
crayon"
Peter Paquet, Helldunkel, Raum und Form: Georges
Seurat als Zeichner, Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main,
2000), fig. 40, p. 108
Anne Bertrand, "Winthrop: le dessein d'une collection",
L'Oeil (March 2003), no. 545, fig. 14 (color)
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), cat. no. 128, repr. (color)
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler,
Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat.,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des
Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 128, repr.
Fronia E. Wissman, "Knitting and Fine Art", Interweave
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Knits (Spring 2006), XI, no. 1, p. 8, p. 8, repr.
Exhibition History
8th Exhibition, Société des Artistes Indépendants,
Société des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, 03/19/1892 04/27/1892
Seurat: Oeuvres peintes et dessinées, La Revue
Blanche, Paris, 03/19/1900 - 04/05/1900
Exposition Georges Seurat, 1859-1891, Galerie
Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 12/14/1908 - 01/09/1909
Pictures and Drawings by Georges Seurat, Lefevre
Galleries, 04/01/1926 - 05/31/1926
Les dessins de Georges Seurat, Bernheim-Jeune,
Paris, 11/29/1926 - 12/24/1926
First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van
Gogh, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York,
11/01/1929 - 11/30/1929
Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector,
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 03/31/1969
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and
Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection,
Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon,
Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery,
London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums,
Cambridge, 01/31/2013 - 06/01/2013
Body Image in French Art and Visual Culture (18th and
19th Centuries), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge,
01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016
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