We look across a channel of choppy water at three masted ships, a sailboat, at least one steamer, and three rowboats in this horizontal seascape painting. The white peaks and waves are painted with pearlescent shades of white, gold, ice blue, and the faintest pink tinge. The steamer belches gray smoke along a coastline in the distance to the left. The sailboat is farther back. Two of the three masted ships edge closer to us to the right of the sailboat. The ship is first almost halfway across the canvas from the left edge, and the second, which flies a flag vertically striped with blue,…
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Le Havre

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898)

1883

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 52.39 × 72.87 cm (20 5/8 × 28 11/16 in.) ; framed: 83.19 × 103.51 × 10.8 cm (32 3/4 × 40 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection, 1937)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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