River's Edge by Georges Seurat

River's Edge depicts the shore of the Seine at Asnieres, with the tip of the island of La GrandeJatte to the right. A commercial boathouse, its prow facing us, is moored to the bank. Its superstructure is framed in yellow and red roughly mixed to form carmine, a strong note of color that is repeated, somewhat subdued, among the reflections in the water.

Distant buildings on the shore at Clichy form vertical reflections in the water, sharply differentiated from the adjacent reflections of the trees. The lower half of the mass of foliage is mostly blue-green and panel color, but over the upper half Seurat brushed orange, yellow, and cream tones atop greens and some of the dark blue-green. In the extreme upper left is a curious note of red, white, and blue, possibly a flag surmounting the building that rises behind the slanted tree trunk.