Le Sentier des douanes is a Pointillist-divisionist[1] oil on canvas painting by Paul Signac, measuring 72 by 92.5 cm.

The work now hangs in the musée de Grenoble, to which it was left in 1923 by Georgette Agutte and Marcel Sembat.

It demonstrates the artist's identification with the Pointillist movement in his choice to use different brushstrokes to show different falls of light – oblique ones for the slopes of the hill, vertical ones for the trees and horizontal ones for the sky and sea[3] – altogether allowing him to give a dynamic effect to all the spaces shown.

Captivated by the light and colours of a sunset, he contrasted the blue-violet tones of the sea and shadows with pink-oranges of the earth and the tree trunks.

[4] The work also highlights his attempts to show the quay as faithfully as possible by using preparatory drawings and sketches.