Thomas Eakins
John Biglin in a Single Scull
1873-1874
Oil on canvas
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery
Whitney Collections of Sporting Art
Gift of Francis P. Garvan, B.A., 1897, M.A. (Hon.), 1922, in memory of Harry Payne Whitney, B.A., 1894 and Francis Payne Whitney, B.A., 1898
(c) Yale University Art Gallery

Edouard Manet
Olympia
1863
Oil on canvas
H. 1,30 ; B. 1,90 m
Paris, musée d'Orsay, offered to the State by public subscription upon the initiative of Claude Monet, 1890
(c) R.M.N. - Musée d'Orsay

Young Boy with a Cat
1868-69 (20 Kb); Musee d'Orsay in Paris

Jan Davidsz de Heem
Vase of Flowers, c. 1660
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
1961.6.1

Une baignade à Asnières
Georges-Pierre Seurat, 1884
Oil on canvas , 201 x 300 cm.
NG.

Signed: Seurat.

Asnières is an industrial suburb west of Paris on the River Seine. The present work shows a group of young workmen taking their leisure by the river.

This was the first of Seurat's large-scale compositions. He drew conté crayon studies for individual figures using live models, and made small oil sketches on site which he used to help design the composition and record effects of light and atmosphere. Some fourteen oil sketches and ten drawings survive. The final composition, painted in the studio, combines information from both.

While the painting was not executed using Seurat's pointillist technique, which he had not yet invented, the artist later reworked areas of this picture using dots of contrasting colour to create a vibrant, luminous effect. For example, dots of orange and blue were added to the boy's hat.

The simplicity of the forms and the use of regular shapes clearly defined by light recalls paintings by the Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. In his use of figures seen in profile, Seurat may also have been influenced by ancient Egyptian art.

seurat-grande-jatte

The Music Lesson
c. 1662-65; Oil on canvas, 74.6 x 64.1 cm; Royal Collection, St. James' Palace, London

The Lighthouse at Honfleur
1886 (210 Kb); Oil on canvas, 66.7 x 81.9 cm (26 1/4 x 32 1/4 in); The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Music Lesson (detail)

c. 1662-63; Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 39 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

c. 1664; Oil on canvas, 40.3 x 35.6 cm; National Gallery of Art, Washington

Le Chahut, 1889-90, oil on canvas, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. 248KB

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
c. 1664-65; Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 40.6 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Portrait de jeune homme
Dürer, 1521
bois, 45,5 x 31,5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresde

Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin (1888)

Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 49.4 cm (23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in)

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

La Dame au boa de Plumes
Gustav Klimt ,1898
Huile sur toile, 75x 75 cm
Historisches Museum der Stadt, Vienne

Paix entre le dauphin Charles et Charles le Mauvais.

(FR 2813)
fol. 416
Grandes Chroniques de France
France, Paris, XIVe s.
(70 x 65 mm)

The Parisian (La Parisienne)
1874 (110 Kb); Oil on canvas, 160 x 106 cm (63 x 41 3/4 in); National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Lady at the Piano
1875 (40 Kb); Art Institute of Chicago

A Girl With a Watering Can
1876 (190 Kb); Oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm (39 1/2 x 28 3/4 in); The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.