Bathers at Asnières ☷ Seurat ☱ Canvas christianity The Little Street

The Little Street

Van Gogh regarded this work as one of his best summer paintings

and a lion

encapsulating the solitude and camaraderie of frontier life

and halo effect around the sun

Bathers at Asnières ☷ Seurat ☱ Canvas christianity The Little StreetBathers at Asnires (1884, Une Baignade, Asnires) by Georges Seurat depicts bathers in the Seine at Asnires Courbevoie, about four miles from the center of Paris. Opposite is the island of la Grande Jatte, the east tip of which is shown as a slope and trees on the right. The Asnires railway bridge and the industrial buildings of Clichy are in the background. Seurat depicts the saturating heat and brightness of a hot summer day on the riverbank with