Sunday Afternoon ☷ Seurat ☵ Canvas architecture It is one of five

It is one of five versions of the painting

one of many he painted of the seaside town

The painting also suggests sensory experience beyond simply viewing the scene

The painting's creation was fictionalized as a historical novel in 1999

Sunday Afternoon ☷ Seurat ☵ Canvas architecture It is one of fiveA Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1886) by Georges Seurat is his most famous painting, and a major example of pointillism. The painting depicts Parisians at a park on the banks of the River Seine. Some of the character details include a woman with a pet monkey on a leash, and in the painting's center, a little girl dressed in white stares out of the canvas. The painting was the basis for the 1984 Broadway musical Sunday in the Park