This horizontal painting shows a harbor scene filled with tall-masted ships and steamships adorned with colorful flags. The masts of the ship to our left dominate the composition, reaching almost to the top edge of the painting. This ship has a black and white hull and is docked alongside a quay lined with buildings in the left third of the painting. The masts are rigged with ropes and draped with long, strings of flags in red, yellow, blue, and white. A group of people with light-colored clothing gather in small boats around the ship to our left. Another vessel moored in the middle of the…
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Festival in the Harbor of Honfleur

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898)

1858

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 41 x 59.3 cm (16 1/8 x 23 3/8 in.) ; framed: 62.2 x 81.3 x 6.3 cm (24 1/2 x 32 x 2 1/2 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
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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