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Horses in the Water

Maker

(Artists)
1859-1891

Title

Horses in the Water

Date of Production

c. 1883

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

Height: 15.2 cm (panel)
Width: 24.8 cm (panel)

Accession Number

LP.1997.XX.17

Mode of Acquisition

Private collection, loan, 1997

Credit

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

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Keywords

Label Text

This study, which relates to Bathers at Asnières (National Gallery, London), shows an early version of the composition that Georges Seurat ultimately abandoned. Although he retained the general outline and slope of the riverbank in the finished painting, as well as the distant factories, he replaced the horses with two bathing boys, one of whom wears the red trunks seen on the rider in the foreground in this sketch.

Provenance

Mme Seurat, the artist’s mother, Paris; Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Mme Seurat, the artist’s mother, Paris; Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Galerie Barbazanges, Paris; The Independent Gallery, London; purchased by Samuel Courtauld June 1925; bequeathed to Christabel McLaren, Lady Aberconway, 1947; 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

Reflected Colour: Impressionism on the surface of the water, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, 27/04/2013-29/09/2013 ...More

Georges Seurat - Figures in Space, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, 05/02/2010-09/05/2010

Georges Seurat - Figures in Space, Kunsthaus Zurich, 02/10/2009-17/01/2010

Seurat and the Making of La Grand Jatte, Art Institute of Chicago & Chicago & USA, 16/06/2004-19/09/2004

Georges Seurat and the Neo-Impressionism 1885 - 1905, Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 26/10/2002-13/12/2002

Georges Seurat and the Neo-Impressionism 1885 - 1905, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 09/09/2002-20/10/2002

Georges Seurat and the Neo-Impressionism 1885 - 1905, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsonomiya, Japan, 21/07/2002-01/09/2002

Georges Seurat and the Neo-Impressionism 1885 - 1905, Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan, 22/05/2002-14/07/2002

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, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 16/06/1994-25/09/1994 ...Less

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