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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.
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135341
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At the Concert Parisien
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drawing
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135341
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drawing
title
At the Concert Parisien
description
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.
date
1887–88
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q60757372
creators
1816
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 31.4 x 23.6 cm (12 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
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France, 19th century
accession
1958.344
Source extras
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conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper
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At the Concert Parisien, 1887–88. Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891). Conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper; sheet: 31.4 x 23.6 cm (12 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1958.344
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cream modern laid paper
watermarks
MICHALLET
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
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
didYouKnow
Despite Georges Seurat's brief lifespan, he created a large number of drawings, working almost exclusively with the waxy Conté crayon and textured paper used for this sheet.
citations
citation
<em>Trente ans d'art indépendant, 1884-1914</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: Société des artistes indépendants, 1926.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 203, no. 3323
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<em>Seurat: His Drawings</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: Buchholz Gallery, 1947.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 26
citation
Seligman, Germain. <em>The Drawings of Georges Seurat</em>. New York: Curt Valentin, 1947.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 84, no. 57; Reproduced: pl. XLV
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” July 20, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” July 24, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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Hauke, César M de. <em>Seurat et son oeuvre</em>. 2 vols. Paris: Gründ, 1961.
page_number
Mentioned: vol. 2, p. 272, no. 687; Reproduced: p. 273
citation
Herbert, Robert L. <em>Seurat's Drawings</em>. New York: Shorewood, 1962.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 141-42, 185, no. 124; Reproduced: p. 142
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 180
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 180
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Rubin, J.H. "Seurat and Theory: The Near-Identical Drawings of the Café-Concert." <em>Gazette des Beaux-Arts</em> 6, no. 76 (October 1970): 237-46.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 246 n. 2
citation
Chastel, André. <em>L'opera completa di Seurat</em>. Milan: Rizzoli, 1972.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 115; Reproduced: p. 114
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 223
citation
Breitman, Ellen. <em>Art and the Stage</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 57-59; Reproduced: p. 57
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Webb, Sheila. <em>Paper: The Continuous Thread. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1982.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 22, 66, cat. no. 8; Reproduced: p. 22
citation
O'Toole, Judith Hansen. "Henri-Gabriel Ibels and Georges Seurat: An Attribution Confirmed." <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 69, no. 7 (September 1982): 236-42.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 236
citation
Franz, Erich and Bernd Growe. <em>Georges Seurat: Zeichnungen</em>. Exh. Cat. Bielefeld: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1983.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 87, 193, 194, no. 82; Reproduced: pl. 82
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Clark, T.J. <em>The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers. </em>New York: Knopf, 1984.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 215
citation
Thomson, Richard. <em>Seurat</em>. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 197
citation
Katzive, David H. <em>Fringe Patterns: Six Contemporary Works with Scientific or Metaphoric Ties to the 1887 Michelson-Morley Experiment</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 1987.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 7
citation
Miller, Michael J. <em>Drawing: A Glossary of Materials, Selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
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Reproduced: n.p.
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Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. <em>Chahut</em>. Paris: Hazan, 1989.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 140
citation
Madeleine-Perdrillat, Alain. <em>Seurat</em>. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 123
citation
Tinterow, Gary. “The Café-Concert, 1886–1888.” In <em>Georges Seurat, 1859-1891</em>, edited by Robert L. Herbert<em>.</em> Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 302, no. 197
citation
Zimmerman, Michael F. <em>Seurat and the Art Theory of His Time</em>. Antwerp: Mercator, 1991.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 366-68, 372; Reproduced: p. 372
citation
Coven, Jeffrey. <em>Baudelaire's Voyages: The Poet and His Painters</em>. Exh. Cat. Huntington, NY: Heckscher Museum, 1993.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 86; Reproduced: p. 85
citation
Hammacher, A.M. <em>Silhouette of Seurat</em>. Otterlo: Kröller-Müller Museum, 1994.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 58
citation
DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 8, 138-39, 291; Reproduced: p. 139
citation
Herbert, Robert L. <em>Seurat: Drawings and Paintings</em>. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 113-15; Reproduced: p. 114
citation
Stuckey, Charles. "I mattini sulla Senna di Monet." In <em>Monet, la Senna le ninfee: Il grande fiume e il nuovo secolo,</em> edited by Marco Goldin, 119-22. Exh. Cat. Brescia: Museo di Santa Giulia, 2004.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 122
citation
Jodi Hauptman, ed. <em>Georges Seurat: The Drawings. </em>Exh. Cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2007.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 180-81, 254; Reproduced: p. 237, no. 128
citation
McCaughey, Patrick. "The Dark Side of Georges Seurat." <em>Art in America</em> (March 2008): 138-143.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 142
citation
Getlein, Mark. <em>Living with Art</em>. 8th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2008.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 158
citation
Prendeville, Brendan. "Seurat and the Act of Sensing: Perception as Artifact." In <em>Seurat Re-Viewed</em>, edited by Paul Smith, 149-62. College Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 158; Reproduced: p. 159
citation
Krčma, Ed. "Film, Drawing and the Body." In <em>Tacita Dean: Film</em>, edited by Nicholas Cullinan. Exh. Cat. London: Tate Modern, 2012.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 91
citation
Foa, Michelle. <em>Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision</em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 192; Reproduced: p. 193
citation
Thomson, Richard. "Seurat's <em>Circus Sideshow</em>: A <em>Parade</em> of Paradoxes." In <em>Seurat's Circus Sideshow, </em>edited by Richard Thomson, 15-106<em>.</em> New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 21, 77, 79-80, 130, Reproduced: p. 81
citation
“Creativity in Action," <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>60, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 26.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 26.
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 138-141, no. 25b
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Hauke 687
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Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-06-10 18:00:12.391000
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135341
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conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper
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