How you can use this image

This image is available to be shared and re-used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND).

You can reproduce this image for non-commercial purposes and you are not able to change or modify it in any way.

Wherever you reproduce the image you must attribute the original creators (acknowledge the original artist(s) and the person/organisation that took the photograph of the work) and any other rights holders.

Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find more images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.

Download

More information

Notes

Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.

This small oil study shows the riverbank at Asnières, a suburb of Paris on the river Seine. In the background we see the Courbevoie bridge and behind it the factories of Clichy. Throughout his life Seurat worked in the traditional academic way making drawings and sketches for his large paintings. 'The Riverbanks' is one of many tiny sketches he made for his first large-scale composition, 'Bathers at Asnières' (1884) at the National Gallery, London. To the right we can just make out the tree-lined tip of La Grande Jatte, the setting for Seurat's later painting 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884', (1884–1886) at the Art Institute of Chicago.