End of the Harvest (c. 1892–1905): Art, History and Details

End of the Harvest (c. 1892–1905) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles Angrand (French, 1854–1926).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: End of the Harvest
• Date: c. 1892–1905
• Creator attribution: Charles Angrand (French, 1854–1926)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: charcoal on cream laid paper
• Dimensions: Sheet: 49.1 x 63.5 cm (19 5/16 x 25 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1999.49

A detail from the museum

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

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Contemporary German Painting Acquired by CMA,” June 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
• DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
• Kosinski, Dorothy M., Bradley Fratello, and Laura Bruck. Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat. Exh. Cat. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2007.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.