Young men and boys rest and swim in the Seine on a hot summer day, with the factory chimneys of Clichy and a railway bridge behind them in the haze. Seurat, aged 24, planned the huge canvas through many studies and built it from cross-hatched strokes of carefully chosen colour. The Salon jury rejected it in 1884.
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Around 1887 Seurat went back to the canvas and added dots of orange, yellow and blue to the hat of the boy in the water, a sign of his new pointillist method.
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