| Les Poseuses | |
|---|---|
| The Three Models | |
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| Artist | Georges Seurat  |
| Year | 1886 |
| Medium | oil paint, canvas |
| Movement | pointillism, post-impressionism |
| Dimensions | 200 cm (79 in) × 249.9 cm (98.4 in) |
| Accession No. | BF811 |
Models, also known as The Three Models and Les Poseuses, is a work by Georges Seurat, painted between 1886 and 1888 and held by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Models was exhibited at the fourth Salon des Indépendants in spring of 1888.[1]
The piece, the third of Seurat's six major works, is a response to critics who deemed Seurat's technique inferior for being cold and unable to represent life.[2] As a response, the artist offered a nude depiction of the same model in three different poses. In the left background is part of Seurat's 1884-1886 painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Models is considered distinctive because of its pointillist technique and the political implications of its depiction of the nude female body.
- ^ Rewald 1943, p. 79.
- ^ Peter Russell (20 December 2019). Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-1-913487-01-0.