End of the Harvest

About the Artwork

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.

Inscriptions

watermark, lower left: BERVILLE (in reverse); watermark, upper right: Lalanne

Exhibition history

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (October 22, 2006-January 7, 2007). Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (organizer) (September 27, 2014-January 11, 2015). Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).

Quick Overview

Artist: Charles Angrand (French, 1854–1926)
Date: c. 1892–1905
Medium: charcoal on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 49.1 x 63.5 cm (19 5/16 x 25 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawing
Department: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession no.: 1999.49

Provenance

Artist’s family, by descent 1999: (Galerie Lespinasse, Rouen, sold to Mr. P. L.) 1999: Mr. P. L. 1999: (Galerie Berès, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999) 1999 -: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

More by Charles Angrand in museum collections

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Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005894

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.