The Angler

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Image: Courtauld
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Maker


1859-1891

Title

The Angler

Date of Production

c. 1884

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

Height: 24.1 cm (panel)
Width: 15.2 cm (panel)

Object Number

LP.1997.XX.15

Mode of Acquisition

Private collection, loan, 1997

Credit

Private Collection. On long-term loan to the Courtauld Gallery, London

Location

On display
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Label Text

This solitary angler appears in Georges Seurat’s iconic Sunday Afternoon on the Île de la Grande Jatte (Art Institute of Chicago), begun in 1884. Seurat made more than fifty preparatory studies for this monumental canvas, which depicts a crowd at leisure on an island on the Seine, just outside of Paris. Although some studies are devoted to the landscape setting, most focus, like this one, on the individual figures who populate the final work.

Provenance

Mme Seurat, the artist’s mother, Paris; Félix Fénéon, Paris; Galerie Barbazanges, Paris; M. Knoedler & Co, London; purchased by Samuel Courtauld November 1926; bequeathed to Christabel McLaren, Lady Aberconway, 1948; private collection

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
Georges Seurat - The Drawings, MoMA & New York & USA, 28/10/2007-07/01/2008
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Seurat and the Making of La Grand Jatte, Art Institute of Chicago & Chicago & USA, 16/06/2004-19/09/2004
National Gallery (to be displayed with permanent collection), National Gallery, London, 01/09/1997-01/06/1998
Impressionism for England - Samuel Courtauld as Patron and
Collector, Courtauld Gallery, London, 16/06/1994-25/09/1994
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