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Look through the dark trees toward the pale river, then inspect the colored border surrounding the scene.
Seurat returned to La Grande Jatte for this quieter view across the Seine toward its suburban banks. Instead of the crowds of his large park painting, trees and boats frame the water. He added the painted border shortly before exhibiting the picture in 1889, extending his color experiments to its edge.
Oil on canvas · 27 3/4 x 34 in. (70.5 x 86.4 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Neo-Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Gray Weather, Grande Jatte
- Artist
- Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris)
- Date
- ca. 1886–88
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27 3/4 x 34 in. (70.5 x 86.4 cm)
- Credit line
- The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2002, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.