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Pointillist painting of people in period dress relaxing on a sunny riverbank with trees, sailboats, and a black dog in the grass.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Figures in late-nineteenth-century dress stroll, sit, and picnic on a sunlit riverbank lawn beneath tall trees, with sailboats on the water beyond. Tiny dots of pure color build the grass, shadows, and clothing in a pointillist technique, and a dog and a small monkey-like animal rest in the foreground.

Artist
Georges Seurat
Date
1884–86, border added 1888–89
Medium
Oil on canvas
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1130 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1889).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

Español: Un domingo en La Grande Jatte — 1884

Personas con vestidos de finales del siglo XIX pasean, se sientan y hacen picnic en un prado soleado junto al río, bajo árboles altos, con veleros sobre el agua al fondo. Pequeños puntos de color puro forman la hierba, las sombras y la ropa en técnica puntillista, y un perro negro descansa en primer plano.

Português: Un domingo na Grande Jatte — 1884

Pessoas em trajes do fim do século XIX passeiam, sentam-se e fazem piquenique em um gramado ensolarado à beira do rio, sob árvores altas, com veleiros na água ao fundo. Pequenos pontos de cor pura compõem a grama, as sombras e as roupas em técnica pontilhista, e um cão preto descansa em primeiro plano.

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