View of the Golden Horn in Constantinople.

View of the Golden Horn in Constantinople (1907) was the major oil painting outcome of Signac's 1907 visit to Ottoman Istanbul. The Golden Horn — the historic estuary dividing the European part of the city — was one of the most celebrated scenic views in European travel literature, and Signac brought his systematic divisionist vision to bear on its famous skyline of mosques, minarets, and wooden houses. He made numerous watercolours on the spot before completing this oil. Museum of Art in Łódź.

The broad panoramic view is structured as complementary zones of warm land and cool water, the mosques' silhouettes rendered in warm red-ochre dots against a luminous blue-green sky. The divisionist mosaic surface is here expanded to carry an entire city panorama, testing its capacity for architectural description at scale.