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Follow the dark silhouette from hat to shoulder to skirt, and notice how softly the parasol dissolves into the pale paper.
Alongside his oil studies, Seurat used Conté crayon drawings to develop individual figures for La Grande Jatte. This seated woman would appear near the center of the final painting. Without color, the drawing tests how a figure can become recognizable through a few carefully graded areas of light and dark.
Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper · 48 × 31.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)
- Artist
- Georges Seurat
- Date
- 1884/85
- Medium
- Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 48 × 31.5 cm (18 15/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.