Inscription: On verso, lower right hand corner, in red pencil: "222" On verso, centre, in graphite: "de Seurat" followed by a mark or signature and several words, all indecipherable.

Marking: Watermark: E. D. et Cie [see Paris-New York 1991]

Émile Seurat (French, 1891–1906)Paris, 1891 until his death in 1906; Mme veuve Émile Seurat (French)1906 - 1929; Georges Bernheim, Paris, 1929; Martin Birnbaum, New York, 1929; Lizzie Plummer Bliss, 1929 until her death in 1931; Museum of Modern Art, New York, Lillie P. Bliss bequest,1931 until purchase by MMA, 1951; Donor: Joseph Pulitzer Bequest

de Hauke 545; Paris-New York 1991, no. 53

Fourth Loan Exhibition: The Collection of Miss Lillie P. Bliss Exh. cat., Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art, 17 October - 15 December 1931. Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1931, cat. no. 113.

Memorial Exhibition; The Collection of Miss Lizzie P. Bliss Exh. cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 17 May - 27 September 1931. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1931, cat. no. 139.

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Modern Masters from the Collection of Miss Lizzie P. Bliss Exh. cat., Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, 1-31 January 1932. John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 1932, cat. no. 108.

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. The Lillie P. Bliss collection Exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 14 May - 12 September 1934. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1934, cat. no. 60.

Watercolors and Drawings from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection Exh. cat., Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, 21 May - 11 June 1935. The Arts Club of Chicago, 1935, cat. no. 13.

An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Water Colors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection Exh. cat., Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 13 March - 10 April 1935. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1935, cat. no. 24.

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller, Ernestine M. Fantl, Beaumont Newhall Cubism and Abstract Art Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, 2 March - 19 April 1936. Museum of Modern Art, New York, Reprint editions for the Museum of Modern Art in 1966 (New York; Arno Press), 1974 (Boston; New York Graphic Society), and 1986 (Cambridge, Mass; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), 1st. New York, 1936, cat. no. 257, p. 223.

Curt Valentin [Gallery] Seurat: His Drawings Exh. cat., New York, Buchholz Gallery, 4-29 March 1947, coinciding with the publication of Germain Seligman, 'The Drawings of Georges Seurat'. New York, 1947, cat. no. 20.

Germain Seligman The Drawings of Georges Seurat. Curt Valentin [Gallery], New York, 1947, cat. no. 39, fig. no. pl. XXVIII, pp. 23, 70, ill.

Seurat, 1859-1891 : Paintings and Drawings Exh. cat., New York, Knoedler Galleries, 19 April - 7 May 1949. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1949, cat. no. 30.

Robert L. Herbert Seurat: Paintings and Drawings Exh. cat., Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 16 January - 7 March 1958, and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 24 March - 11 May 1958. Edited by Daniel Catton Rich, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1958, cat. no. 67, p. 29.

French Drawings from American Collections Clouet to Matisse. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Dutch, French and English versions of catalogue. Rotterdam, Paris, New York, MMA February 3 - March 15, 1959, cat. no. 187, p. 122.

César de Hauke Seurat et son oeuvre. II, Paris, 1961, cat. no. 545, pp. 132-133,280,, ill.

Pierre Courthion, Norbert Guterman Georges Seurat. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., The Library of Great Painters, New York, 1968, p. 53, ill.

Fiorella Minervino, André Chastel L'opera completa di Seurat. Rizzoli, See also French edition, 'Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat', Italian. Milan, 1972, cat. no. D140, pp. 114, 115, ill.

Fiorella Minervino, André Chastel Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat. Ernest Flammarion, See also Italian edition, 'L'opera complete di Seurat', French. Paris, 1972, cat. no. D140, pp. 114, 115, ill.

Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou Dessins Francais du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, de David a Picasso Exh. cat., LIVe Exposition du Cabinet du Dessins, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 25 October 1973 - 7 January 1974. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1973-1974, cat. no. 88, fig. no. pl. 77, pp. 65, 147, ill.

Antoine Terrasse l'Univers de Seurat. Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 36, ill.

Hilton Kramer "Seurat, A Master of Elusive Perceptions" New York Times. 30 September. New York, 1977, p. 62.

Jacob Bean Seurat, Drawings and Oil Sketches from New York Collections Exh. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29 September - 27 November 1977. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1977, cat. no. 16.

Robert L. Herbert, Françoise Cachin, Anne Distel, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow Georges Seurat, 1859-1891 Exh. cat., Paris, Grand Palais, 9 April 1991 - 12 August 1991, and New York, MMA, 24 September 1991 - 12 January 1992. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, English version; French version also published. New York, 1991-1992, cat. no. 53, p. 77, ill.