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A dozen men, women, and children walk, stand, or sit on a waterside wharf that spans this horizontal painting. A jetty stretches into the distance at a right angle, starting to the left of center. Dozens more people pack the jetty. The people close to us all appear to have pale skin. The men wear suits and hats in brown or black, and the women wear long hoop skirts, capes, and hats, some with veils, in shades of sky blue, red, gray, or mustard yellow. A man and woman sit on an ice-blue bench near a solitary streetlamp at the center of the composition. A small brown dog runs toward the bench…
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Jetty and Wharf at Trouville

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898)

1863

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 34.8 x 58 cm (13 11/16 x 22 13/16 in.) ; framed: 57.8 x 81.3 x 10.8 cm (22 3/4 x 32 x 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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