Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)

Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper, 1884

About this work

Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte) (1884/85) by Georges Seurat. Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper.

Georges Seurat

Pioneer of Neo-Impressionism and Pointillism

Georges Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. His masterpiece, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, is at the Art Institute of Chicago.