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Boat by the Riverbank

Maker

(Artists)
1859-1891

Title

Date of Production

c. 1883

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

Height: 15 cm (panel)
Width: 24 cm (panel)

Accession Number

P.2000.XX.2

Mode of Acquisition

Sotheby's, National Lottery Fund, National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund, April 2000

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Purchased from Sotheby's with assistance from The Art Fund, the National Lottery Fund, National Heritage Memorial Fund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund 2000

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Keywords

Label Text

This small study is one of some fourteen preparatory oil sketches for Georges Seurat’s first major large-scale painting, Bathers at Asnières, purchased by the Courtauld Fund for the National Gallery, London in 1924. The small, delicately applied dabs of paint recall those used by Monet and Renoir in their own riverside landscapes of the 1870s, on view nearby.

Provenance

Purchased from Sotheby's with assistance from The Art Fund, the National Lottery Fund, National Heritage Memorial Fund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund 2000

Exhibition History

The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019

The Courtauld Collects - 20 Years of Acquisitions, Somerset House & London & England, 17/06/2010-19/09/2010

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

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 ...Less

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