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The Morning Walk

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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This panel was most likely painted in 1885 and relates to a medium-size canvas, The Seine at Courbevoie (now in a private collection in Paris). Seurat may have painted it before he decided to produce a finished picture of this particular view of the river, or it may be a preparatory study. The vertical format is unusual for Seurat, but it allowed him to construct the composition as a series of stacked horizontal bands formed by the foreground, the river, the far riverbank and the houses and trees of Courbevoie in the distance. Painting on location, he worked rapidly, leaving traces of the bare wood of the panel visible between the brushstrokes. Although he had developed his pointillist technique of painting in small dots of colour by 1885, his debt to Impressionism can be seen in the large fluid strokes of unmixed colour, particularly on the water.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

The Morning Walk

Date

1885

Medium

Oil on wood

Measurements

H 24.9 x W 15.7 cm

Accession number

NG6557

Acquisition method

Presented by Heinz Berggruen, 1995

Work type

Painting

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