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Georges Seurat - Landscape at Saint-Ouen 1879Landscape at Saint-Ouen |
Johannes Vermeer - The Girl with a Pearl Earring 1665. It is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a painting of an imaginary figure. Tronies depict a certain type or character; in this case a girl in exotic dress, wearing an oriental turban and an improbably large pearl in her ear. ArtsViewer.com |
From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
Painted in 1878 or 1879 at Saint-Ouen, a suburb just north of Paris, this is the earliest known of Seurat's oil sketches from nature. Aman-Jean, a painter and good friend of the artist, remembered accompanying Seurat to the site.
Originally this work was part of a double-sided panel that was divided after 1950 into two separate panels. The other side, a landscape with a free copy after Puvis de Chavannes's "Le Pauvre pêcheur" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), is now in a private collection.