GEORGES SEURAT

(1859 Paris 1891)

Nourrice. Circa 1880/81.

Pencil on paper, on cardboard.

On the reverse with the stamp: Collezione Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt.

16.1 x 10.5 cm.

Provenance: - Emile Seurat.- Felix Féneon, Paris.- Jacques Rodriguez-Henriqués.- M. Dugueyet.- Collection Mrs. Camille Platteel.- Collection de Knyff.- Mr. and Mrs. J. Koerfer.- Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt, Rome (with stamp on the reverse). - Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva 1978. - Collection Emil Frey, Germany.- by descent to the present owner.Exhibitions: - Paris 1900, Seurat, La Revue Blanche, without number.- Paris 1908/09, Retrospective Georges Seurat, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, no. 142B.- Paris 1926, Les Dessins de Georges Seurat, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, no. 150.Literature: - Kahn, Gustave: Les Dessins de Georges Seurat, Bernheim Jeune, Paris 1928, no. 18B, (with ill.).- Catton Rich, Daniel: Seurat and the evolution of "La Grande Jatte", The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1935, p. 59, no. 4.- de Laprade, Jacques: Georges Seurat. Monaco - Les Docuements d'Arts, 1945, p. IX.- de Hauke, César: Seurat et son oeuvre, vol. II, Paris 1961, no. 391 (with ill. p. 55).