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Léon Appert

French, 1837 - 1925

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Georges Seurat, The Watering Can - Garden at Le Raincy, c. 1883, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.18.51

The Watering Can - Garden at Le Raincy

Georges Seurat · c. 1883 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.18.51

Georges Seurat, Horse and Boats (Study for "Bathers at Asnières"), 1883/1884, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.18.55

Horse and Boats (Study for "Bathers at Asnières")

Georges Seurat · 1883/1884 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.18.55

Green hills roll back to a turquoise-blue sea in this almost square painting. The scene is built with layers of small dots in lavender, lilac, cool blue, warm green, yellow, and peach. The hill angles from nearly the top left corner of the canvas to the lower right, filling the bottom left half of the canvas. It is mostly variegated shades of green but there are two cliff-like, purple surfaces to our left and a lighter patch of yellow to our right. A pole and a cross-shaped structure atop the hill to the left could be utility poles. An object on the water in the distance to our right may be a buoy or a boat. Peach lines the horizon, which comes just over halfway up the composition, and straw yellow and cornflower blue ripple across the sky above.
Georges Seurat, Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, 1888, oil on canvas, Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman, 1972.9.21

Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy

Georges Seurat · 1888 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1972.9.21