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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Large painting of people in a crowded park, brushstrokes are dots.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Georges Seurat · 1884–86, border added 1888–89

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Palette

Slate
28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1

Smoke
26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1

Taupe
20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Khaki
15% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.0:1

Ash
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1

Putty
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Georges Seurat
Date: 1884–86, border added 1888–89
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 207.5 × 308.1 cm (81 3/4 × 121 1/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes · Flowers · Dogs · Cities and streets · Mothers and children
Main colour: Grey · lightness 47, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules