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This small wooden panel is a different study from the Met’s larger canvas with the same title. It belongs to the many drawings and oil sketches through which Seurat developed La Grande Jatte. The arrangement of its visitors changed substantially before the monumental painting was completed.
Oil on wood · 6 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (15.6 × 24.1 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Neo-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
- Artist
- Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris)
- Date
- 1884
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 6 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (15.6 × 24.1 cm) Framed: 13 1/8 × 17 in. (33.3 × 43.2 cm)
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- 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.