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Two pale-skinned little girls sit back-to-back on a sandy beach, almost filling the width of this vertical painting. The girls wear matching pale, ice-blue pinafores over short sleeve, ocean-blue dresses. Both sit with their legs stretched in front of them and angled to our right. The girl closest to us, to our left, looks down at the denim-blue pail and wooden shovel she holds between her ankles. She holds the long-handled shovel in her near hand with the end inside the pail. She has a chubby, flushed, round face with blond hair and rosy arms and legs. She wears black shoes and appears to…

Children Playing on the Beach

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926)

1884 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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