Eight men, women, and children stand or sit in straight-backed, wooden chairs gathered along a sandy beach near low, gently breaking waves with sailboats floating in the ocean beyond in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted throughout, making much of the detail indistinct. Most of the people sit with their backs to us but the faces we can see suggest they have light skin. The people gather in a loose crowd that spans the left half of the composition, except for one woman wearing white and holding a blue parasol who sits to the right. The women wear long dresses…
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Beach at Trouville

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898)

1864/1865

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (including surrounding strips of wood, approx. .005): 27 x 49.1 cm (10 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.) ; framed: 41.3 x 63.3 x 9.5 cm (16 1/4 x 24 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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