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1859-1891
LE CHEVAL ATTELÉ OR LA CHARETTE ATTELÉE

measurements
32 by 40.5cm.

alternate measurements
12 5/8 by 15 7/8 in.

Painted in 1884.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Percy Moore Turner, London (sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mr. T.... of London, 2υnd April 1928, lot 39)
Félix Féneon, Paris (purchased at the above sale)
Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York (acquired from the above 1938)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (a gift from the above in 1941; until 1999)
Private Collection

EXHIBITED

Paris, Galerie Théophile Briant, L'Adieu au Cheval, 1929, no. 34
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Tentoonstelling Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijgenooten, 1930, no. 271
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Seurat, 1936, no. 11
(probably) Paris, Palais de la Decouverte, Exposition Internationale: la Science de l'Art, 1937
Paris, Le Musée d'Art Vivant, OEuvres de la fin de XIXe siècle, 1938, no. 1
Toronto, The Art Gallery, A Loan exhibition from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1954, no. 68
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Selection IV, 1954-55
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern Masters from the Collection of the Soloman R. Guggenheim, 1961
Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum Exhibition: a Loan Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Prints from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1961-62, no. 140
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Summer Selection 1962, 1962
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum Collection, Spring 1963, 1963
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, 1963
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Paintings from the Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1965, no. 3
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum Collection, 1966
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Acquisitions of the 1930's and 1940's: A Selection of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings in Tribute to Baroness Hilla von Rebay, 1890-1967, 1968
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Collection From the Turn of the Century to 1914, 1969
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Collection 1900-1970, 1970
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Selections from the Museum Collection and Recent Acquisitions 1971, 1971
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Classics in the Collection, 1972
New York, The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, Fifty Years of Collection: an Anniversary Selection, Paintings by Modern Masters, 1987, no. 16
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Georges Seurat, 1991-92, no. 147, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

LITERATURE

Henri Dorra & John Rewald, Seurat, L'Oeuvre peint, biographie et catalogue critique, Paris, 1959, no. 31, illustrated p. 30 (titled Cheval dans un champ and as dating from circa 1882)
A Handbook to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Collection, New York, 1959, no. 138, illustrated p. 160
C. M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris, 1961, vol. I, no. 46, illustrated p. 27
Anthony Blunt, 'Notes on the Plates', in Roger Fry, Seurat, London, 1965, no. 5, illustrated
Pierre Courthion, Seurat, New York, 1968, illustrated p. 75
André Chastel & Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat, Paris, 1973, no. 52, illustrated p. 94; illustrated in colour pl. IV
Angelica Zander Rudenstine, The Guggenheim Museum Collection: Paintings 1880-1945, New York, 1976, vol. II, no. 229, illustrated in colour p. 642, illustrated p. 647
Robert Herbert, Françoise Cachin, Anne Distel, Susan Alyson Stein & Gary Tinterow, Georges Seurat 1859-1891, New York, 1991, no. 149, illustrated p. 221