Angler
by SEURAT, Georges, Oil on panel, 24 x 15 cm
This painting is a study for Seurat’s famous painting A Sunday Afternoon at the Ile de la Grande Jatte (now in the Art Institute of Chicago) which was shown at the 1886 Impressionist exhibition in Paris.
In his tiny oils, done in sketchy brush-strokes on wood panels, Seurat strikingly often used dark figures silhouetted against light backgrounds, and linear elements to structure his space.