The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe by Georges Seurat

This is a canvas that presents in one compact vision the air of the harbor and of the sea. An impression of stability is supplied by the bollards along the sea wall casting their shadows in the direction of the channel. The rest is infinity, the infinity of a perspective in an elegant parabola, seemingly a prelude to the immensity of the sea, here perfectly calm and inducing to calm. The free, full, modulated space that

This painting is luminous, flooded with light and sunshine, and rather high in color; it contrasts with the evening effect of the channel scene in the William A. M. Burden collection.

As Lucie Cousturier observed of Seurat, "He could sit down in front of any bench, tree, or wall which others had previously depicted, and his own vision would not be influenced one particle"

The canvas was exhibited at the Exposition des XX in Brussels, and at the Independants of 1891 with The Circus. There exists one study for it on a panel which was owned by Maximilien Luce.