Eiffel Tower ☰ Seurat ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:EspressoEiffel Tower (1889) by Georges Seurat is one of about seventy oil studies, or "croquetons" (little sketches), he made on small wood panels. The panels were easily transported and ideal for outdoor painting. Here his subject is the tower built by Gustave Eiffel in 1889 for the Universal Exposition in Paris, prior to its completion. The top, still missing its distinctive crowning platform, appears to dissolve into the sky.
It is closely paired with The Astronomer
illustrating the vastness of the terrain and sky
Freedom from Want (1943) by Normal Rockwell
The dark haired and brown-eyed young woman is only identified as Margherita
and the lost House Standing in Delft
A Flemish proverb
He captures a moment in time when Venice was experiencing a resurgence as a tourist destination
and the subject's unusually direct and confrontational gaze
The title of this portrait comes from a popular French novel about Japan
entertaining the audience in the bleachers
pedestrians on a cobblestone street illuminated by a nearby shop
He would become skeptical of Impressionism