{"id":84368,"date":"2021-09-02T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/uncategorized\/model-facing-front-study-for-models-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:11:33","slug":"model-facing-front-study-for-models-ii","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/georges-seurat\/model-facing-front-study-for-models-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges Seurat \u2013 Model Facing Front (Study for Models) II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Model Facing Front (Study for Les Poseuses) II \u2013 a hand-painted reproduction of Seurat\u2019s painting<\/h2>\n

This is the second of Seurat\u2019s studies for the central figure of Les Poseuses, painted in 1887, and among our paintings on canvas<\/strong> it is the one that shows a painter changing his mind. The original is held by the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay in Paris. Ours is made as a hand-painted painting, oil on canvas, dot by dot.<\/p>\n

What is on the canvas<\/h3>\n

The same standing nude, seen from the front, but drawn tighter than in the first study: the shoulders are squarer, the weight more evenly carried, the outline firmer against the ground. The colour has cooled \u2014 more blue and violet in the shadow side, less of the warm ochre that ran through the earlier panel. The background is again bare, a field of small strokes rather than a room. The figure sits slightly higher in the frame, which is the change that carried through to the finished canvas.<\/p>\n

Two studies of one pose, and why both survive<\/h3>\n

Painters usually discard the first attempt. Seurat kept both, and both entered the Orsay collection, which is why this shelf can carry them side by side. Put next to each other they show the decision being made rather than described: the same woman, the same light, one year apart, and a shift of a few centimetres in where she stands. That is as close as a viewer normally gets to watching a method work.<\/p>\n

A note on the original<\/h3>\n

The original is oil on a small wood panel. The museum measures it 25 cm high and 15.8 cm wide; we state width first and then height, so with us it is written 15.8 x 25 cm, and the table spells the order out in words as well. The details are read from the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\u2019s own record: dated 1887, oil on panel. This is a different panel from the 1886 study of the same pose, not a second print of it \u2014 the two are separate works and both are on this shelf.<\/p>\n

What you receive<\/h3>\n

The painting is made by our painter by hand, oil on canvas, in the size you choose, and to your own measurements if you prefer. The subject is upright and spare, and it is at its best hung as a pair with the 1886 study \u2014 the two read as one idea in two states. Singly it suits a narrow wall or an alcove. When the canvas is finished we photograph it and send you the picture for approval before it leaves the studio. You choose the frame in our 3D application. Every artwork we sell is hand-painted and never printed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year of creation:<\/td>\n1887<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original size (width \u00d7 height):<\/td>\n15.8 x 25 cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Painting style:<\/td>\nPointillism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original technique:<\/td>\nOil on wood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Located:<\/td>\nMus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, Paris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This shelf carries the first study of the same pose, painted in 1886, and the large canvas both were made for \u2014 Les Poseuses, where this figure finally stands at the centre.<\/p>\n