# Trees (study for La Grande Jatte), in Post-Impressionism

Georges Seurat painted this in 1884, aged 25. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Seurat drew these trees in black Conté crayon, a waxy chalk that catches on the raised grain of textured paper and leaves the hollows white, so that forms seem to emerge from a soft, glowing darkness rather than from outlines.

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## The work

- Date: 1884
- Medium: Black Conté crayon, on white laid paper, laid down on cream board
- Dimensions: 62 × 47.5 cm (24 7/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966.184
- 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)
- [More watercolours of the 19th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/watercolour-19?hang=749) (40 works)
- [19th-century France](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-france?hang=749) (237 works)

## Get it

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