In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
This work is currently on loan to the exhibition "Seurat and the Sea" at The Courtauld Gallery, London, February 13 – May 17, 2026 Seurat depicts the port of Honfleur, located at the mouth of the Seine on France's Atlantic coast. Utilizing the pointillist technique, he instills the busy port with an unexpected sense of stillness. Logically, the large ship and sailboat at center should both be traveling forward, given the steam trailing into the sky and the unfurled sails, but neither seems to move. The composition is further anchored by the inclusion of a cruciform mooring post, whose stark shadow suggests the work was painted in the early afternoon.
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Paul Signac (French, 1863–1935) — Evening, The Jetty at Vlis
Paul Signac (French, 1863–1935) — Saint-Tropez: The Port
Camille Pissarro — The East Breakwater, Return of The Regatt
Paul Cézanne — The Village of L'Estaque Seen from the Sea (L
Louis Hayet (French, 1864–1940) — Banks of the Oise at Dawn
Claude Monet — Port of Le Havre
Camille Pissarro — Steamboats in the Port of Rouen
Maxime Maufra — Douarnenez in Sunshine
Paul Signac — Les Andelys, Côte d'Aval
Henri Edmond Cross — Calanque des Antibois
Camille Pissarro — Charing Cross Bridge, London
Claude Monet — The Entrance to the Port of Le Havre
