Georges Pierre Seurat (1859 – 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. While less popular than his paintings, Seurat's conté crayon drawings have also collected a great deal of critical recognition.

Seurat's artistic personality merges qualities that are usually thought of as against and incompatible: on the one hand, his greatest and fine sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by beginning Neo-Impressionism and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.

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