End of the Harvest

This drawing's unusual technique reflects the ideas of the French painting movement known as Pointillism or Divisionism. Its most famous practitioner, Georges Seurat (1859–1891), developed a technique of applying color in short strokes or dots. Seurat's friend Charles Angrand was influenced by this method, and both artists developed a related technique for their drawings. In the sheet shown here, Angrand used a black, manufactured charcoal stick on a paper textured with tiny ridges. The highest of these ridges hold the charcoal, but the paper shows through in the small spaces between them. This creates the effect of a soft, diffuse evening light that dissolves the curved shapes of haystacks and turns the landscape into an expansive abstraction of nature.

A horizontally oriented charcoal drawing on cream paper depicts a hazy landscape beneath a faint circular sun. On the left, a row of dark, rounded mounds recedes toward the center. To the right, a horse pulling a cart and a figure appear as soft silhouettes in a pale field. Muted gray tones and grainy textures create a blurred atmosphere, casting the scene in an obscuring haze that softens all sharp details across the composition.

End of the Harvest

c. 1892–1905

Charles Angrand

(French, 1854–1926)

France, 19th century

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