10 Francs Famous Paintings - 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'

The painting this coin reproduces was completed by Georges Seurat in 1886 after two years of work and roughly 60 preparatory studies — an obsessive process driven by his systematic application of chromoluminarism, the technique he preferred to call his pointillist method. The Art Institute of Chicago has held the original since 1924. Congo's involvement here is purely nominal; these silver-plated pieces were produced for the European collector market under licensing arrangements common to small-denomination commemorative programs issued by central African states with no circulation intent whatsoever.