Man painting a boat
Maker
(Artists)
1859-1891
1859-1891
Title
Man painting a boat
Date of Production
c. 1883
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
Height: 24.4 cm (frame)
Width: 33 cm (frame)
Width: 33 cm (frame)
Accession Number
P.1948.SC.393
Mode of Acquisition
Samuel Courtauld, bequest, 1948
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
On display
Keywords
Label Text
This swiftly painted scene shows the young Georges Seurat engaging with the mid 19th-century tradition of painting outdoors. Its cool colours, applied with criss-cross brushstrokes, also reveal Manet’s influence. However, it is at that period that Seurat began to move away from the innovations of older artists in search of a more methodical way of capturing colour and light.
Provenance
Mme Seurat, the artist's mother, Paris; Félix Fénéon, Paris; The Independent Gallery, London; Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill, London; Lord Berners, London; The Independent Gallery, London; purchased by Samuel Courtauld, November 1928; Courtauld Bequest, 1948
Exhibition History
Van Gogh Along the Seine, Art Institute of Chicago, 14/05/2023-04/09/2023; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 13/10/2023-14/01/2024
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 ...More
Seurat and the Making of La Grand Jatte, Art Institute of Chicago & Chicago & USA, 16/06/2004-19/09/2004
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
Landscape in French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1949-1950 ...Less
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 ...More
Seurat and the Making of La Grand Jatte, Art Institute of Chicago & Chicago & USA, 16/06/2004-19/09/2004
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
Landscape in French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1949-1950 ...Less
Literature
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998
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