Île de la Grande Jatte
Also known as: la Grande Jatte, l'île de la Grande Jatte
Overview
An island in the Seine at Neuilly and Levallois, just outside Paris, a place of Sunday outings, later the subject of Seurat's Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte (1884–1886) (footnotes at 097.0263, 102.0085, 103.0437).
Relevance to Marie
Marie's open-air painting ground in the autumns of 1882 and 1883: «J'ai été aujourd'hui à la Grande Jatte pour cela» (096.0223); after Tony Robert-Fleury and Julian tell her plein air is too hard for her, «demain je retourne à la Grande Jatte» (096.0285); «des études clandestines à la Grande Jatte» (096.0304); «j'arrive sur cette île de la Grande Jatte, je gratte, je racle, je démolis» (096.0326); a family on the bank watches her paint (097.0263); in November 1883 «une allée d'arbres aux tons dorés» (102.0085), the landscape she later gives away (103.0437).
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