Île de la Jatte

View of La Grande Jatte Island from Neuilly Bridge

Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

The Île de la Jatte or Île de la Grande Jatte is an island in the river Seine, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine, and shared between the two communes of Neuilly-sur-Seine and Levallois. It is situated at the very gates of Paris, being 7 km distant (in a straight line) from the towers of Notre Dame and 3 km from the Place de l'Étoile. The island, which has about 4,000 inhabitants, is nearly 2 km long and almost 200 m wide at its widest point. Its name translates as "Island of the Bowl" or "Island of the Big Bowl".

It is best known as the setting for Georges Seurat's pointillist oil painting, Un Dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte) (1884-1886 and 1889), and also for the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, Sunday in the Park with George.

History[]

La Grande Jatte in 2011

Temple de l'Amour at the south point of Jatte Island

In 1818, the Duke of Orléans, Louis-Philippe, acquired the Château de Neuilly to house his family of ten children. He bought the land and created a park which included the island, reachable only by boat. He also moved the Temple de Mars (Temple of Mars), which his father had commissioned, from Parc Monceau, and put it on the northern point of the island, converting it into the Temple de l’amour (Temple of Love). It was moved to the southern end of the island in 1930.^[1][2]

Between 1850 and 1870, Napoléon III and Baron Haussmann further modified the island, and artists began painting there. At the end of the 19th century the island became known for its painters, especially the Impressionists. In addition to Georges Seurat, artist such as Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Alfred Sisley, Charles Angrand, and Albert Gleizes painted scenes of the island.^[3][4]

In June 2009, a walk around the island (Île des Impressionnistes) was established, detailing the works of the Impressionists.^[5][6][7]

Selected paintings[]

Albert Gleizes, 1912, Les Baigneuses (The Bathers), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Many artists have painted L’Île de la Grande Jatte:^[8]

• Émile Bernard
  • Le Pont de fer d’Asnières, 1887, oil on canvas, 45.9 × 54.2 cm, Museum of Modern Art
• Albert Gleizes
  • Les Baigneuses (The Bathers), 1912, oil on canvas, 105 x 171 cm, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • L’Île de la Grande Jatte ou Bord de parc avec rivière animée de canots, 1907–09, pastel and ink on paper, 25 × 41.5 cm, private collection
  • L’Île de la Grande Jatte, 1908, charcoal and gouache on paper, 25 × 41.5 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne
  • La Seine près de Courbevoie, 1908, oil on canvas, 54 × 65 cm,  [fr]
• Claude Monet
  • L’île de la Grande Jatte, 1874, oil on canvas, 50 × 70 cm, private collection
  • À travers les arbres, île de la Grande Jatte, 1878, oil on canvas, 54 × 65 cm, private collection
  • Les rives de la Seine, île de la Grande Jatte, 1878, oil on canvas, 52 × 63 cm, Musée Marmottan
  • Printemps à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, 1878, oil on canvas, 50 × 61 cm, National Gallery (Norway)
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  • L’Embâcle de la Seine entre Asnières et Courbevoie, 1891, pastel and graphite on canvas, 51 × 90 cm, Petit Palais
• Georges Seurat
  • Baignade à Asnières, 1884, oil on canvas, 201 × 300 cm, National Gallery
  • La Seine à Courbevoie ou Paysage à la tourelle, 1884, oil on canvas, 15.5 × 24.5 cm, Van Gogh Museum
  • Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, 1884–86, oil on canvas, 207.5 × 308.1 cm, Art Institute of Chicago
  • Temps gris, Grande-Jatte, 1886, oil on canvas, 70.5 × 86.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Le Pont de Courbevoie, 1886–87, oil on canvas 46.4 × 55.3 cm, Courtauld Gallery
  • La Seine à la Grande Jatte, 1888, oil on canvas, 65 × 81 cm, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
• Alfred Sisley
  • L’Île de la Grande Jatte, 1873, oil on canvas, 50 × 65 cm, Musée d'Orsay

Vincent van Gogh, La Seine et le pont de la Grande Jatte, 1887

• Vincent van Gogh
  • La Seine et le pont de la Grande Jatte, 1887, oil on canvas, 32 × 40.5 cm, Van Gogh Museum
• Pierre Bonnard
  • Les travailleurs à la Grande Jatte, c. 1916–20, oil on canvas, 130 x 160 cm, National Museum of Western Art

Celebrities who have lived on the island[]

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The following celebrities are known to have lived on the island:

• Christian Clavier, actor.^{[citation needed]}
• Alexander Grothendieck, mathematician.^[9]
• Jean Reno, actor.^{[citation needed]}
• Yves Rénier, actor.^{[citation needed]}
• Patricia Kaas, singer.^{[citation needed]}
• Nicolas Sarkozy, politician, 23rd President of France.^{[citation needed]}
• Marco Verratti, football (soccer) player.^{[citation needed]}
• Richard Branson, business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.^{[citation needed]}
• Alessandra Sublet, radio and television host.^{[citation needed]}

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