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Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884"

Heavy daubs of pigment form a crowded scene of roughly defined, finely dressed individuals in a brightly color park along a riverbank.

Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884"

Georges Seurat · 1884

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Palette

Aubergine
29% of the image
Purple · text contrast 13.7:1

Spruce
27% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.1:1

Khaki
17% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.0:1

Sepia
15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1

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

Tan
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

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
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 15.5 × 24.3 cm (6 1/8 × 9 9/16 in.); Framed: 25.4 × 35.6 cm (10 × 14 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Cities and streets
Main colour: Green · lightness 37, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mary and Leigh Block. 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