Clothes on the Grass by Georges Seurat

Beneath the foreground greens is a layer of yellow-green which shows through here and there, and under the surface colors of the water is a coating of pale pinkish cream. The sandy ravine, darker here than in other studies, is a ruddy brown mixture of tans, reds, oranges, and blue. More color contrasts are used than previously: pale rose in the water next to the greens of the bank; oranges and blues juxtaposed in the water and the architecture; and green in the sky above the coral roof. The still life is broadened to assume roughly the mass it has in the final painting; its wine reds resonate against the greens of the bank. At the right edge is the tip of La Grande Jatte and its band of reflections. This band and the reflections of the chimneys foreshadow the geometry that increasingly characterized Seurat's work.