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A Sunday afternoon that took two years to paint, and one small addition that changed its bottom corner. Images: public domain (aic) for the image used. Museum website.

Pointillist park scene by a river: strolling and seated Parisians with parasols; in the foreground a woman in a bustle dress holds a small monkey on a leash.

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Whose monkey is that?

Among the parasols and top hats, a woman on a leash walk with a monkey. Seurat never explained her.

Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86 · Art Institute of Chicago · open access

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