Georges Seurat
French, 1859-1891

Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières", 1883

Oil on panel
6 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (15.8 x 25.1 cm)
Inscribed lower right: Seurat
Gift of the Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc., 1962.578

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, French Painting 1100-1900, October 18-December 2, 1951, cat. 92.

New York, Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Seurat and His Friends, November 18-December 26, 1953, cat. 4 (ill.)

Chicago, Art Institute, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, January 16-March 7, 1958; traveled to New York, Museum of Modern Art, March 24-May 11, 1958.

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Neo-Impressionism, February 7 - April 8, 1968, no cat. no.

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Georges Seurat 1859-1891, April 9–August 12, 1991; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 24, 1991 to January 12, 1992, cat. 110, pp. 160-1.

London, The National Gallery, Seurat and the Bathers, July 2-September 28, 1997, cat. 60.

Chicago, Art Institute, Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte,” June 16–September 19, 2004, cat. 20.

Publication History

C. de Hauke, Seurat et Son Oeuvre (Paris, 1961), no. 93, pp. 58-9.

Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1962-1963 (Chicago, 1963), p. 13.

W. Homer, Seurat and the Science of Painting, 1963.

Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 4 (1963-64), p. 5, ill. p. 4.

J. Rewald, Post Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin, 3rd ed., revised (New York, 1978), ill. p. 74.

R. Tilston, Seurat (London, 1991), pp. 70-71.

Sarah Carr-Gomm, Seurat (London, 1993), p. 16 (ill.), 142, no. 16.

Ownership History

Rober Caze (died 1886), Paris [according to Dorra and Rewald 1959; see also Seurat's list of owners of his works where Caze is named as the owner of "Esquisse de la baignade," reprinted in Appendix D, p. 380 in New York 1991]; by inheritance to his widow, Mme Caze (died 1887), Paris; probably in sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 26, 1887 [according to Dorra and Rewald 1959]. Gary [according to Dorra and Rewald 1595]. Sprenger, Paris [according to Dorra and Rewald 1959]. Wildenstein & Co., New York by 1948; sold to Dr. and Mrs. David M. Levy, New York, 1949; given to the Art Institute, 1962 by Adele Levy, whose husband Dr. Levy (died 1977) retained life interest in the painting.