Four women and two children, all with pale skin, carry baskets as they walk along a beach under a brilliant blue sky in this horizontal painting. The scene is painted with visible dabs and blended strokes. The women all wear long-sleeved shirts, calf-length skirts and aprons, head coverings, and gray clogs. The group walks to our left, amid shallow pools that reflect the topaz-blue sky. At the front of the group, to our left, a young woman wears a white kerchief tied at the back of her neck, under her blond hair. She wears a navy-blue shirt and a gray skirt, and she carries a shallow, woven,…
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En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish)

painter John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1878

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 78.7 × 122.9 cm (31 × 48 3/8 in.) ; framed: 117.16 × 161.77 × 13.97 cm (46 1/8 × 63 11/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1917)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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