Port-en-Bessin, 1888, by Georges Seurat, 1855-1891, French Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. In the summer of 1888, Georges Seurat worked in Port-en-Bessin, a small fishing village in Normandy. When Seurat painted this view of the seaport he intended to translate as exactly as possible the luminosity of the open air (BSLOC_2023_4_44)