The Lighthouse at Honfleur is an 1886 landscape painting by the French artist Georges Seurat. Hand p.392 Rewald p.227 It depicts a view of the harbour of Honfleur a coastal resort in Le Havre in Normandy dominated by a lighthouse and jetty.nga.gov page It features the largest of the towns three lighthouses and its western jetty. The painting is also known as The Hospice and the Lighthouse of Honfleur (French: L'Hospice et le Phare de Honfleur). Foa p.15-16
Seurat was a founder of Neo-Impressionism whose use of Pointillism was a radical departure in modern art. He produced a number of coastal scenes during visits to Normandy, including seven begun on this trip to Honfleur but completed in his Paris studio. Today the painting in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, having been presented by Paul Mellon in 1983.https://www.nga.gov/artworks/61383-lighthouse-honfleur
See also List of paintings by Georges Seurat
References
Bibliography Foa, Michelle. Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision. Yale University Press, 2015. Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. National Gallery of Art, 2004. Rewald John. Seurat: A Biography. H.N. Abrams, 1990.