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End of the Harvest

End of the Harvest

c. 1892–1905
(French, 1854–1926)
France, 19th century
charcoal on cream laid paper
Sheet: 49.1 x 63.5 cm (19 5/16 x 25 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1999.49
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The artist Paul Signac, a friend of Angrand, described the artist's drawings as "poems of light."

Description

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.
  • Artist’s family, by descent
    1999
    (Galerie Lespinasse, Rouen, sold to Mr. P. L.)
    1999
    Mr. P. L.
    1999
    (Galerie Berès, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999)
    1999 -
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Contemporary German Painting Acquired by CMA,” June 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: pp. 144-145, p. 292, no. 58; Reproduced: p. 145
    Kosinski, Dorothy M., Bradley Fratello, and Laura Bruck. Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat. Exh. Cat. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2007. Reproduced: p. 65
    Homburg, Cornelia. Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music. Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 2014. Mentioned: pp. 35, 177; Reproduced: p. 41
  • Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).
    Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (organizer) (September 27, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (October 22, 2006-January 7, 2007).
    Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
  • {{cite web|title=End of the Harvest|url=false|author=Charles Angrand|year=c. 1892–1905|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.49