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Bathers at Asnières (French: Une Baignade, Asnières) is an 1884 oil on canvas painting by French artist Georges Pierre Seurat, the first of his two masterpieces on the monumental scale. The canvas is of a suburban, placid Parisian riverside scene.
Figure on the banks of the Seine and bathers [61] Musée d’Orsay, Paris 095 15.5 × 25 More images: 1883 Bathers sitting on the Beach of the Seine [64] Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri 096 17.5 × 26.4 More images: 1883 Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières" [65] Art Institute of Chicago 097 15.8 × 25.1 More images: 1884 ...
Bathers at Asnières, 1884, oil on canvas, 201 × 301 cm, National Gallery, London. He spent 1883 working on his first major painting – a large canvas titled Bathers at Asnières, [16] a monumental work showing young men relaxing by the Seine in a working-class suburb of Paris. [17]
Seurat's painting was a mirror impression of his own painting, Bathers at Asnières, completed shortly before, in 1884. Whereas the bathers in that earlier painting are doused in light, almost every figure on La Grande Jatte appears to be cast in shadow, either under trees or an umbrella, or from another person. For Parisians, Sunday was the ...
Bathers at Asnières by Georges Seurat depicts a scene of 19th century leisure and developing industry in this suburb of Paris. Between 1884 and 1886 Seurat painted Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte, using a new technique – which came to be known as pointillism – of forming an image from patterns of tiny coloured dots. [13]
Le Chahut is an oil painting on canvas measuring 170 by 141 cm (67 x 55 in). Seurat employed a Divisionist style, with pointillist dots of color. The work is dominated by a color scheme that tends toward the red end of the spectrum, of earth tones that draw from a palette of browns, tans, warm grays, and blues, interspersed with not just the primary colors (reds and yellows), nor even with the ...
The Bathers", or in French "Les Baigneuses", can refer to the following artworks: Bathers at Asnières , a painting by Georges Seurat in 1883 Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir) , by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1887
Category: Paintings by Georges Seurat. 17 languages. ... Bathers at Asnières; C. Le Chahut; The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe; The Circus (Seurat) M.