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Twenty men, women, and children sit, stand, or stroll along a sandy beach beneath a bright, cloud-filled sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are small in scale within the landscape, taking up about a quarter of the canvas's height. The scene is loosely painted so many of the facial features are indistinct, but the faces we can see appear to have pale skin. Across a narrow band of sand, the women wear dresses with long sleeves, tight bodices, and ankle-length skirts in shades of baby blue, smoke gray, teal green, crimson red, gray, or tan. Three women hold parasols in shades…

Figures on the Beach

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898)

c. 1867/1870 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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