
Landscape
<p>This haunting work is one of a remarkable body of landscapes Georges Seurat drew in the early 1880s. A lone figure moves along a path through a park setting with a hilly terrain, tended lawns, and tall trees. With its mysterious, twilit atmosphere, Landscape demonstrates the unique shadowy and dramatically lit tenebrist style that the artist developed in that decade.</p> <p>The drawing’s brilliance lies in the breathtaking skill with which Seurat applied Conté crayon, using varying pressure on textured paper to create luminous middle tones counterpoised with solid blacks, demonstrating that Seurat was one of the great masters of black and white.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1876
- Dimensions
- 24.9 × 31.6 cm (9 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Georges Seurat
Artist

Painting
Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
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Seascape (Gravelines)
1890 · oil on wood
Study after "The Models"
1888 · pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper
Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy
1888 · oil on canvas
At the Concert Parisien
1887 · conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
1887 · Oil on canvas
The Lighthouse at Honfleur
1886 · oil on canvas
Record
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- Georges Seurat
- Year
- 1876
- Dimensions
- 24.9 × 31.6 cm (9 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1876-029423
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified




