Seurat Sunday Afternoon Island of La Grande Jatte Large Coffee Mug

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Un dimanche après-midi à l'Ile de la Grande Jatte), Georges Seurat, 1884-86. Oil on canvas, 81 x 120 in. Art Institute of Chicago. This painting was described by a contemporary of Seurat as follows: Under a blazing midafternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine, smart town houses on the opposite bank, and small steamboats, sailboats, and a skiff moving up and down the river. Under the trees closer to us many people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass. A few are fishing. There are young ladies, a nursemaid, a Dantesque old grandmother under a parasol, a sprawled-out boatman smoking his pipe, the lower part of his trousers completely devoured by the implacable sunlight. A dark-coloured dog of no particular breed is sniffing around, a rust-coloured butterfly hovers in mid-air, a young mother is strolling with her little girl dressed in white with a salmon-coloured sash, two budding young Army officers from Saint-Cyr are walking by the water. Of the young ladies, one of them is making a bouquet, another is a girl with red hair in a blue dress. We see a married couple carrying a baby, and, at the extreme right, appears a scandalously hieratic-looking couple, a young dandy with a rather excessively elegant lady on his arm who has a yellow, purple, and ultramarine monkey on a leash. This was the first pointillist painting, made with tiny dots of colour, and is still the most famous. Vintage beautiful cute cool colourful artistic landscape animal and figure Impressionism and Pointillism fine art painting.