A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
1884–1886 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago
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About this work
- Artist
- Georges Seurat (1859–1891)
- Year
- 1884–1886
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 207.6 × 308 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
Parisians of every class take the air on an island in the Seine on a Sunday afternoon: a woman with a parasol and a monkey on a leash, a man in a top hat, soldiers, a girl in white, rowers and a trumpeter, all frozen in profile or full face like figures on a frieze. Seurat worked on the enormous canvas for two years, from 1884 to 1886, making dozens of oil studies on site and then building the picture in his studio from tiny dots and dashes of pure colour meant to blend in the eye, the technique later called Pointillism. He showed it at the last Impressionist exhibition in 1886, where it divided opinion and launched Neo-Impressionism. He added a painted border of dots in 1889. The painting has been in the Art Institute of Chicago since 1926.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A wide, frieze-like Sunday in dots of pure colour that holds a long wall: over a sofa or dining sideboard at 24×16. Natural wood on white or soft green keeps the colour clear; it is calm and takes a central place without shouting.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1884–1886)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, anniversary, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×16. Prints at 18×12, 24×16 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
The full-bleed edition
The painting printed edge to edge, filling the whole sheet (very slightly cropped to fit).





















