A cornerstone Neo-Impressionist landscape from Seurat's final campaign in northern France, completed months before his death in 1891. The canvas strictly operationalizes Michel Eugène Chevreul's theories of simultaneous color contrast: unmixed dots of pure pigment (Divisionism/Pointillism) are juxtaposed to synthesize optically on the viewer's retina. Grounded in Charles Henry’s theories of aesthetic geometry, the heavy reliance on horizontal lines conveys absolute emotional equilibrium. Crucially, Seurat applied a painted stippled border directly onto the edge to buffer the internal optics from the external wall.