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Notice how a few broad patches of light and shade make the seated figures feel solid, even at this small scale.
This small oil panel is a preparatory study for the much larger painting now in London’s National Gallery. The bathers occupy a working-class suburb across the Seine from La Grande Jatte, connecting two of Seurat’s best-known compositions through one stretch of river.
Oil on panel · 15.8 × 25.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières"
- Artist
- Georges Seurat
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 15.8 × 25.1 cm (6 1/4 × 9 7/8 in.); Framed: 54.3 × 63.9 × 6.1 cm (21 3/8 × 25 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of the Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc.
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.