At the Concert Parisien
Details
- Author / creator
- Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Date or period
- 1887–88
- Dimensions summary
- Sheet: 31.4 × 23.6 cm
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Art Fund grant and Friends of the Ashcombe Museum, 1958
- Paper / support
- Laid paper
- Catalogue raisonné
- Hauke 687
About this object
Café-concerts were popular places of entertainment for the middle classes in Paris during the late 1800s and usually featured singers or other forms of vaudeville entertainers. Georges Seurat created eight drawings depicting café-concerts, some showing known establishments. This drawing has an innovative viewpoint, in which we peer through the bowler hats of male viewers listening to a female singer on stage. Seurat typically used a black crayon manufactured by the Conté company, and its waxy quality allowed him to exploit the texture of paper to striking effect.
Materials and technique
Conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper
Signature and marks
inscribed on verso, at bottom, in blue crayon: G. Seurat / L (?) [upside down]; on verso, right center, in red crayon: 299 [posthumous inventory number]; watermark, upper left: MICHALLET
