This is the definitive study (Dorra and Rewald 138; de Hauke 142) for the large painting exhibited at the 8th Impressionist exhibition of 1886 and now in the Art Institute of Chicago (DR139; H162). Seurat made numerous preparatory drawings and small oil sketches on panel for the Chicago painting as well as at least three larger studies on canvas: the present picture a study for the landscape without figures in the collection of Mrs. John Hay Whitney New York (DR116; H131) and a detail of the standing couple at right (DR136; H138) in the Keynes Collection King's College Cambridge on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum. The MMA also owns a smaller sketch (DR113; H117; MMA 1975.1.207) for the background of the composition.