Who painted “Le Chahut”?

“Le Chahut” was painted by Georges Seurat in 1889. Where to see it: Kröller-Müller Museum.

What to look for

Georges Seurat: tiny dots of pure colour, stiff, still figures in profile and carefully ordered compositions.

Georges Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface. Wikipedia

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More by Georges Seurat

“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, 1884
“Bathers at Asnières”, 1884
“The Circus”, 1891
“The Models”, 1886
“The Circus Parade”, 1888
“Young Woman Powdering Herself”, 1889
“The Eiffel Tower”, 1889
“The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe”, 1890