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Europe
1800-1900

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Becoming Modern, an introduction
Romanticism
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A beginner's guide
A beginner's guide to Romanticism
Orientalism
France
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Romanticism in France, an introduction
Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Portrait of Madame Rivière
Napoleon on His Imperial Throne
Apotheosis of Homer
Between Neoclassicism and Romanticism: Ingres, La Grande Odalisque
Painting colonial culture: La Grande Odalisque
Théodore Géricault
Raft of the Medusa
Portraits of the Insane
Eugène Delacroix
Scene of the Massacre at Chios
The Death of Sardanapalus
Liberty Leading the People
Murals in the Chapel of The Holy Angels, Saint-Sulpice
François Rude, La Marseillaise
Spain
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Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV
Francisco Goya, And there's nothing to be done from The Disasters of War
Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808
Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring One Of His Sons
England
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Henry Fuseli
The Nightmare
Titania and Bottom
William Blake
The spiritual form of Nelson guiding Leviathan
The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
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Constable and the English landscape
Wivenhoe Park, Essex
The Hay Wain
View on the Stour near Dedham
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
J. M. W. Turner
The Harbor of Dieppe
The Fighting Temeraire
Slave Ship
Rain, Steam, and Speed -- The Great Western Railway
J.M.W. Turner at Tate Britain
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John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Germany
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Caspar David Friedrich
Monk by the Sea
Abbey in the Oak Forest
Solitary Tree (or Lone Tree)
Woman at a Window
Early photography
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Early Photography: Niépce, Talbot and Muybridge
Louis Daguerre, Paris Boulevard
Lady Clementina Hawarden, Clementina and Florence Elizabeth Maude
Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs. Herbert Duckworth
Victorian art
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Early Victorian
Sir Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times
Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin, Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
Robert Smirke, The British Museum
Pre-Raphaelites and mid-Victorian art
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A beginner's guide
The Pre-Raphaelites, an introduction
The Aesthetic Movement
John Everett Millais
Christ in the House of His Parents
Mariana
Ophelia
Curator's choice - Millais's Isabella
Portrait of John Ruskin
The Vale of Rest
William Holman Hunt
Claudio and Isabella
Our English Coasts (Strayed Sheep)
The Awakening Conscience
Ford Madox Brown
Work
Curator's choice - Ford Madox Brown's Work
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ecce Ancilla Domini
Beata Beatrix
Proserpine
Henry Wallis, Chatterton
William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858
Emily Mary Osborn, Nameless and Friendless
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Thoughts of the Past
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
The Golden Stairs
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Sleeping Beauty — but without the Kiss: Burne-Jones and the Briar Rose series
The Depths of the Sea
Hope
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William Butterfield, All Saints, Margaret Street, London
William Morris and Philip Webb, Red House
Late Victorian
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Sir Frederic Leighton
An Athlete Wrestling with a Python
Bath of Psyche
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Listening to Homer
GF Watts, The Minotaur
Realism
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Realism, an introduction
Gustave Courbet
A Burial at Ornans
The Stonebreakers
The Painter's Studio, a real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life
Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
Rosa Bonheur
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Jean-François Millet
L'Angélus
The Gleaners
Édouard Manet
Music in the Tuileries Gardens
Olympia
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The Railway
Émile Zola
The Balcony
Plum Brandy
In the Conservatory
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Better Know: Manet's Bar
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère with Griselda Pollock
Eva Gonzàles, A Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens
Second Empire
Haussmann the Demolisher and the creation of modern Paris
Charles Garnier, The Paris Opéra
Thomas Couture, Romans of the Decadence
Impressionism
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A beginner's guide
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Impressionism, an introduction
What does "Impressionism" mean?
How the Impressionists got their name
Impressionism: painting modern life
Impressionist color
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Looking east: how Japan inspired Monet, Van Gogh and other Western artists
Edgar Degas
The Bellelli Family
 At the Races in the Countryside
The Dance Class
Visit to a Museum
Gustave Caillebotte
The Floor Scrapers (Les raboteurs de parquet)
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Man at his Bath
Berthe Morisot
The Cradle
Hunting Butterflies
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
How to recognize Renoir: The Swing
La Loge
The Grands Boulevards
Moulin de la Galette
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Claude Monet
Impressionism as optical realism: Monet
How to recognize Monet: The Basin at Argenteuil
The Argenteuil Bridge
The Gare Saint-Lazare
Cliff Walk at Pourville
Poplars
Rouen Cathedral Series
Les Nymphéas (The Water Lilies)
Mary Cassatt
In the Loge
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
The Child's Bath
The Coiffure
Post-Impressionism
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Georges Seurat
Bathers at Asnières
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
The Bedroom
The Starry Night
Paul Gauguin
Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables)
Vision after the Sermon (or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
Nevermore
The Red Cow
Spirit of the Dead Watching
Oviri
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Paul Cézanne
Cézanne, an introduction
The Bather
The Basket of Apples
Still Life with Plaster Cupid
The Red Rock
Turning Road at Montgeroult
Mont Sainte-Victoire
The Card Players
Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)
The Large Bathers
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Sculpture
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux​, Dance
Auguste Rodin
The Walking Man
The Burghers of Calais
The Gates of Hell
Claudel, The Age of Maturity
Symbolism / Art Nouveau
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Arnold Böcklin, Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
Antoni Gaudí, Sagrada Família
Fernand Khnopff
Jeanne Kéfer
I Lock my Door Upon Myself
Franz von Stuck, The Sin
Hector Guimard, Cité entrance, Métropolitain, Paris
Gustav Klimt
Beethoven Frieze
 The Kiss
Death and Life
Edvard Munch
The Storm
The Scream
Léon Bakst, "Costume design for the ballet The Firebird"
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Vase
Hair Ornament
Peredvizhniki
An Introduction to The Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers)
Ilya Repin, Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk Gubernia

Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières

by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières, 1884, oil on canvas, 6.6 x 9.8 ft (National Gallery, London)

Cite this page as: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières," in Smarthistory, November 27, 2015, accessed September 20, 2019, https://smarthistory.org/georges-seurat-bathers-at-asnieres/.

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