(1859 Paris 1891)

Nourrice. Circa 1880/81.

Pencil on paper, on cardboard.

On the reverse with the stamp: Collezione Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt.

16.1 x 10.5 cm.

Provenance:
- Emile Seurat.
- Felix Féneon, Paris.
- Jacques Rodriguez-Henriqués.
- M. Dugueyet.
- Collection Mrs. Camille Platteel.
- Collection de Knyff.
- Mr. and Mrs. J. Koerfer.
- Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt, Rome (with stamp on the reverse).
- Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva 1978.
- Collection Emil Frey, Germany.
- by descent to the present owner.

Exhibitions:
- Paris 1900, Seurat, La Revue Blanche, without number.
- Paris 1908/09, Retrospective Georges Seurat, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, no. 142B.
- Paris 1926, Les Dessins de Georges Seurat, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, no. 150.

Literature:
- Kahn, Gustave: Les Dessins de Georges Seurat, Bernheim Jeune, Paris 1928, no. 18B, (with ill.).
- Catton Rich, Daniel: Seurat and the evolution of "La Grande Jatte", The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1935, p. 59, no. 4.
- de Laprade, Jacques: Georges Seurat. Monaco - Les Docuements d'Arts, 1945, p. IX.
- de Hauke, César: Seurat et son oeuvre, vol. II, Paris 1961, no. 391 (with ill. p. 55).