Georges Seurat - The Channel at Gravelines, Grand Fort-Philippe 1888

The Channel at Gravelines, Grand Fort-Philippe 1888
The Channel at Gravelines, Grand Fort-Philippe
1888 65x81cm oil/canvas
National Gallery, London, UK

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Johannes Vermeer - The Girl with a Pearl Earring 1665. It is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a painting of an imaginary figure. Tronies depict a certain type or character; in this case a girl in exotic dress, wearing an oriental turban and an improbably large pearl in her ear. ArtsViewer.com

From National Gallery, London:
Seurat regularly spent his summers on the Channel coast and, in his last years, produced more than twenty major canvases of its harbours and seascapes. He spent the summer of 1890 in the port of Gravelines, near Calais. This is one of four landscapes dating from this visit.