A row of about a dozen men and women sit, stand, or stroll along a sandy beach beneath a pale blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted so many of the facial features and other details are indistinct. The women wear dresses with long sleeves and skirts in shades of charcoal gray, parchment brown, vivid red, sapphire blue, or white. Five of them shade themselves with black parasols, and a woman to the right uses a white parasol with a topaz-blue interior. The men wear dark suits and straw-yellow hats. Another group of people clustered closer to the water to…
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The Beach

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898)

1877

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 11 x 25.6 cm, 0.3 cm (4 5/16 x 10 1/16 in., 1/8 in.) ; framed: 21.6 x 36.2 x 2.9 cm (8 1/2 x 14 1/4 x 1 1/8 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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