# Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", in Post-Impressionism

Georges Seurat painted this in 1884, aged 25. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> This is one of the most complete of Seurat’s preparatory studies for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884: most of the figures of the final painting are already in place, from the couple with a monkey on a leash to the dog in the foreground and the strollers and boaters along the river.

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## The work

- Date: 1884
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 27 3/4 x 41 in. (70.5 x 104.1 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 51.112.6
- 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.

## Walk on

- [More by Georges Seurat](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/georges-seurat?hang=749) (8 works)
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