A Man Leaning on a Parapet
Georges Seurat · ca. 1881 · Oil on wood
Public domain
Marked public domain in The Met Collection API (isPublicDomain).
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About this picture
A Man Leaning on a Parapet is a public-domain painting by Georges Seurat, dated ca. 1881. Oil on wood. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“A Man Leaning on a Parapet” (ca. 1881) uses Seurat’s divided color. A small sheet is usually a study. It is not automatically the Grande Jatte itself.
About the artist
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) built pictures from small dots of contrasting color. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is the large canvas. Many other works are studies for it or for the same method.
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