Charles Angrand was a French Neo-Impressionist known for his luminous paintings and drawings of figures and landscapes. Angrand’s close friend Georges Seurat played a major role in his use of Pointillist techniques, as seen in The Harvesters (1892). “It would be impossible to imagine a better use of white and black. These are the most beautiful drawings, poems of light, of fine composition and execution,” Seurat once said of his work. Born on April 19, 1854 in Criquetot-sur-Ouville, France, he studied at the École Municipale des Beaux-Arts in Rouen before moving to Paris in 1882. In the city, he befriended Seurat and Paul Signac, and began studying scientific color theories and optics. After Seurat’s untimely death in 1891, Angrand became a recluse, producing few paintings but a number of monochromatic drawings over the rest of his career. The artist died on April 1, 1926 in Rouen, France. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others.