Café-concert (a la gaîté Rochechouart)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1887-1888

Height:

30.7 cm  (12 1/16 in.)

Width:

23.4 cm  (9 3/16 in.)

framed: 57 x 47.5 cm

Technique / Medium:

conté crayon and white gouache on buff laid paper

Description

Drawing depicts a female opera singer onstage, accompanied by an (implied) ensemble in the orchestra pit in front of her; the conductor, arms and baton raised, is visible, specific instruments are not; a prompter's box might be implied; dark shapes of the backs of audience members are in the foreground.

Iconclass

48C862
opera
48C8622
opera-singer (female)
48C77
conductor ~ music
48C771
baton ~ conductor

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Signed: top, black ink, black crayon, and white gouache: G Seurat
watermark: MICHALLET
inscription: verso, graphite: Mo[?] 13711[?]

RIdIM record id

5835