Moss-green land rising to a tree-topped bluff follows the curve of a sandy beach surrounding a pale blue cove in this horizontal landscape painting. The hill and olive-green trees take up most of the height of the left side of the composition. The beach curves from the lower right corner back and to our left, and curves around the cliff face of the bluff. Closest to us, the land is flecked with saffron gold, and two dark brown patches smear the sand. The beach or a sandbar creates a strip of pale brown across the horizon, which comes halfway up the canvas. Distant hills to our left are…
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Beach near Etretat

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796 - 1875)

c. 1872

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 12.3 x 25.5 cm (4 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.) ; framed: 25.4 x 38.1 x 3.2 cm (10 x 15 x 1 1/4 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
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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