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Study for 'La Grande Jatte'

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Seurat produced many oil sketches and drawings as studies for his monumental painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte of 1884–6 (Art Institute of Chicago). Many of these concentrate on the landscape but others, including this one, focus on the scale and position of figures within the final picture. Here we see a man standing rigidly, reduced to his essential outline with no incidental detail. Seurat had already included him in an earlier oil sketch, and he appears in the final painting where he is accompanied by an elegantly dressed woman. Like most of the people in the Grande Jatte, he is shown in profile as he looks straight ahead at the river. He wears a black top hat, a long grey jacket or coat and dark trousers, which identify him as a member of the middle or upper classes and, perhaps, as a dandy.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Study for 'La Grande Jatte'

Date

1884-5

Medium

Oil on wood

Measurements

H 17.5 x W 26 cm

Accession number

NG6560

Acquisition method

Presented by Heinz Berggruen, 1995

Work type

Painting

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