Georges Seurat
Around 1883
Oil paint on wood
15.2 x 24.8 cm
This study, which relates to Bathers at Asnières (National Gallery, London), shows an early version of the composition that Georges Seurat ultimately abandoned. Although he retained the general outline and slope of the riverbank in the finished painting, as well as the distant factories, he replaced the horses with two bathing boys, one of whom wears the red trunks seen on the rider in the foreground in this sketch.