# At the Concert Parisien, in Post-Impressionism

Georges Seurat drew this in 1887–88, aged about 28. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Café-concerts were popular places of entertainment for the middle classes in Paris during the late 1800s and usually featured singers or other forms of vaudeville entertainers. Georges Seurat created eight drawings depicting café-concerts, some showing known establishments.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1887–88
- Medium: conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 31.4 x 23.6 cm (12 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.344
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Georges Seurat](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/georges-seurat), French, 1859–1891

Seurat trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied the colour theories of Chevreul and others before developing pointillism, building pictures from small, separate touches of pure colour meant to combine in the eye.

8 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Georges Seurat](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/georges-seurat?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More drawings of the 19th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/drawing-19?hang=749) (92 works)
- [19th-century France](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-france?hang=749) (237 works)

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