# Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières", in Post-Impressionism

Georges Seurat painted this in 1883, aged 24. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> Georges Seurat made this painting as a preparatory work for his monumental Bathers at Asnières, now in the National Gallery, London. It shows men and boys on the bank of the Seine River in the working-class Parisian suburb of Asnières.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- 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.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.578
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Georges Seurat](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/georges-seurat), French, 1859–1891

Seurat trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied the colour theories of Chevreul and others before developing pointillism, building pictures from small, separate touches of pure colour meant to combine in the eye.

8 works in the collection.

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