Under a blazing mid-afternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine . . . people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass.
Source: The author's description of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui, No. 368, by Jules Christophe.
-- Georges Seurat, (Dec 2 1859-1891), French artist, painter; He devised the pointillist style of painting using tiny dots of color.