In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
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In preparation for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (Art Institute of Chicago; 1886), Seurat made frequent excursions to this island spot in the river Seine. Unlike the final painting which features the artist's renowned pointillist technique of unmixed complementary colors, this oil study, one of 24 made in preparation, was executed quickly using crisscross brushwork and color likely mixed on the palette. Among the few elements seen here that appear in A Sunday on La Grande Jatte are the tree with a bend in its trunk at left, the dark green shadows reaching toward the river, and the little girl in white.
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Paul Cézanne — Group of Bathers (Groupe de baigneurs)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Children on the Seashore, Guernsey (
Paul Cézanne — Group of Bathers
Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada
Maurice Prendergast — Beach Scene with Two Trees
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — La Grenouillere
William Glackens — The Little Pier
Claude Monet — Woman Seated under the Willows
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Meadow (La Prairie)
Claude Monet — Autumn at Jeufosse
