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Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1886.

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Georges Seurat: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte  wikidata:Q1044742 reasonator:Q1044742
Artist
Georges Seurat (1859–1891)  wikidata:Q34013 q:en:Georges Seurat
 
Georges Seurat
Description French painter, drawer, lithographer and designer
Date of birth/death 2 December 1859 Edit this at Wikidata 29 March 1891 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death former 5th arrondissement of Paris Edit this at Wikidata boulevard de Magenta Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Brest (1879), Paris (November 1880), Burgundy (1881), Paris (1882-1886), Normandy (1885), Honfleur (1886), Paris (1886), Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (July 1888), Le Crotoy (1889), Gravelines (1890), Paris (1890-1891)
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artist QS:P170,Q34013
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Title
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte -- 1884 Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lfr,"Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte"
label QS:Len,"A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1884 and 1886
date QS:P571,+1884-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1884-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 207.5 cm (81.6 in); width: 308.1 cm (10.1 ft)
dimensions QS:P2048,207.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,308.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q239303
Accession number
1926.224 (Art Institute of Chicago) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation France Edit this at Wikidata
Object history
  • By decent to Mme. Seurat, the artist’s mother (died 1899), Paris, 1891;
  • by descent to Emile Seurat, the artist’s brother;
  • sold for 800 francs to Casimir Brû, Paris, 1900;
  • given by him to his daughter, Lucie, Paris, 1900;
  • Lucie Brû Cousturier and Edmond Cousturier, Paris;
  • sold for $20,000 possibly through Charles Vildrac, Paris to Frederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett, Chicago, 1924;
  • given to the Art Institute, 1926.
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  • Inscrit en bas à droite : Seurat Edit this at Wikidata
Notes Pointillism
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