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Port-en-Bessin  1888

by Georges Seurat

[url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20890819]Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/url] [br] In the summer of 1888, Georges Seurat worked in Port-en-Bessin, a small fishing village in Normandy. He painted six views of the seaport and its surrounding countryside. His intention was "to translate as exactly as possible the luminosity of the open air, with all its nuances." Although...
Size: 
26 x 32 3/4in. (66 x 83.2 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on Canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons