Bathers at Asnières
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Bathers at Asnières is a large-scale 1884 oil painting by Georges Seurat that depicts working-class Parisians relaxing by the Seine and is considered a key early example of his innovative approach to color and composition.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
genre painting
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oil painting → painting → |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
early major work by Georges Seurat
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key early example of Seurat’s innovative approach to color and composition → precursor to Seurat’s pointillist technique in A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte → |
| artist |
Georges Seurat
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| artStyle |
transitional between Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism
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| cityOfCurrentLocation |
London
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| collection |
National Gallery, London
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| colorTheory |
optical color mixing
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| countryOfCurrentLocation |
United Kingdom
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| countryOfOrigin |
France
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| creator |
Georges Seurat
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| dateOfCreation |
1884
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| depicts |
a boy calling across the river
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a dog → a seated boy in profile → bathers → boats on the Seine → factories in the background → men in straw hats → smokestacks → suburban Paris landscape → the River Seine → working-class Parisians → |
| genre |
Post-Impressionism
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| height |
201 cm
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| inception |
1884
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| languageOfTitle |
French
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| location |
National Gallery, London
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| locationDepicted |
Asnières-sur-Seine
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Seine River → |
| medium |
oil on canvas
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oil paint → |
| movement |
Divisionism
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Neo-Impressionism → Pointillism precursor → |
| museum |
National Gallery
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| originalTitle |
Une Baignade, Asnières
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| setting |
riverbank
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| support |
canvas
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| theme |
leisure of the urban working class
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modern life in late 19th-century Paris → |
| timeOfDayDepicted |
afternoon
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| title |
Bathers at Asnières
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| uses |
carefully structured composition
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contrasts of light and shadow → innovative approach to color → large, simplified forms → |
| width |
300 cm
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Referenced by (5)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
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National Gallery
("Bathers at Asnières by Georges Seurat")
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Georges Seurat
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Bathers at Asnières
("Une Baignade, Asnières")
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Bathers at Asnières
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