FIGURE 62 Georges Seurat, Poseuses, 1886–88

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TitleModels (Poseuses)

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1886–1888

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions78 3/4 × 98 3/8 in.

LocationThe Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/6994/Models-(Poseuses)/details

Accession numberBF811

SubjectsArtists and models in artPost-impressionism (Art)--FranceFemale nude in art

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1. Public Health and Private Desire: Exploring Modernity and the Erotic

Richard Thomson

The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889–1900

~The human body was a significant element in many of the public debates in France during the 1890s. Its role may sometimes have been explicit and highlit, at others discreet or downplayed, but its centrality was apparent to all who looked below the surface of everyday discourse about the pressing issues of the moment. The memory of 1870–1,...

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Richard Thomson

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940Painting, French--19th centuryArt and society--France--History--19th centuryLesbianism--France--History--19th centuryRodin, Auguste, 1840-1917Sculpture, French--19th centuryLeisure in art--France--History--19th centuryToulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901Female nude in art--France--19th century

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Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision

When A Sunday on the Grande Jatte—1884 (Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte—1884) was exhibited by Seurat in 1886 and 1887, it was understood by many critics within two seemingly unrelated interpretive frameworks (fig. 42). A number of critics focused on the artist’s pointillist method of paint application, that is, on...

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PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891Art and science--France--History--19th centuryArt criticism--France--History--19th centuryPainting--Technique--France--History--19th centuryVisual perception--France--History--19th centuryPainting, French--19th century

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