A two-masted ship with sails furled has been pulled onto a beach as dozens of people bustle on and around it in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted and many details are indistinct throughout. The ship dominates the right half of the composition, listing slightly to the left as the bow lodges in the sand. People working on the deck pass crates and goods down to others standing on a ladder or horse-drawn carriage pulled up alongside the hull. The women wear long brown, gray, or dark blue skirts, shawls in shades of golden yellow, marigold orange, dusky pink, or…
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Return of the Terre-Neuvier

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898)

1875

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73.5 x 100.7 cm (28 15/16 x 39 5/8 in.) ; framed: 96.5 x 123.2 cm (38 x 48 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
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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