Georges Seurat

This haunting work belongs to a remarkable body of landscapes that Seurat drew in the early 1880s. A lone figure moves along a path through a park setting with hilly terrain, tended lawns, and tall trees. Seurat applied Conté crayon with varying pressure to the textured paper, creating luminous middle tones counterpoised with solid blacks. With its mysterious, twilit atmosphere, Landscape demonstrates the artist’s unique tenebrist style—characterized by contrasting shadows and dramatic illumination—which he would develop throughout the decade.