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Compare the cluster of figures on the right with the finished La Grande Jatte. Which poses disappeared as Seurat revised the scene?
Only about twenty-four centimeters wide, this wooden panel is one of more than twenty painted studies for La Grande Jatte. Its figures were still provisional: the group on the right was replaced in the finished canvas by the prominent standing couple and the woman’s monkey. The study records a composition in progress.
Oil on panel · 15.5 × 24.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884"
- Artist
- Georges Seurat
- Date
- 1884
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 15.5 × 24.3 cm (6 1/8 × 9 9/16 in.); Framed: 25.4 × 35.6 cm (10 × 14 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
- 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.