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Georges Seurat: Woman with a Parasol, 1884
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Georges Seurat Works Online
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Original works by Georges Seurat available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Mini-site for the 2004 exhibition Seurat and the Making of "La Grande Jatte"
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Georges Seurat at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
View of Le Crotoy from Upstream, 1889
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Rue St. Vincent, 1884
Guggenheim Berlin
This space is now closed, but some information about past exhibitions remains online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 5 works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
View of Fort Samson, 1885
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Seurat
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 
Includes biographical information about the artist
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Georges Seurat - The Drawings"
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Study for Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
Le Cirque, 1891
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
L'Echo (study for Une Baignade, Asnières)
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
13 works by or related to the artist
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
Head of a Young Girl
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Study for "Invitation to the Sideshow", 1887
Study for "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", 1884-85
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Banks of the Seine near Courbevoie, 1883
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "S"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Port-en-Bessin, 1888
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
4 works by Seurat
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Approach to the Bridge at Courbevoie, 1886
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Nurse with a Child's Carriage
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
La Seine à la Grande-Jatte, 1888
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Port-en-Bessin: The Outer Harbor (Low Tide), 1888
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
Models, 1886-88
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Woman Singing in a Café Chantant, 1887
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The Seine at Courbevoie, 1884
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
4 works online when last checked
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
Evening, Honfleur (MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Google Art Project
Grandcamp, Evening (MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Georges Seurat at The Artchive
Georges Seurat at The Athenaeum 
111 works online by Seurat
Georges Seurat in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
Georges Seurat at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Scroll down for a work from the 2005 exhibition Masterpieces from the Guggenheim
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
The Circus, 1890-91
Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
The Halter Collection
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The BBC
2 works online
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Georges Seurat 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
Aman-Jean, conte crayon drawing, 1882-83
Artcyclopedia
Models, 1887-88
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Young Woman Powdering Herself, ca.1890
The New Yorker
"Georges Seurat at the Museum of Modern Art", 2007 review by Peter Schjeldahl
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Georges Seurat
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Seurat and the Avant-garde
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Seurat: Drawings and Paintings
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Masters of Art: Seurat
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