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Twenty men, women, and children sit, stand, or stroll along a sandy beach beneath a bright, cloud-filled sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are small in scale within the landscape, taking up about a quarter of the canvas's height. The scene is loosely painted so many of the facial features are indistinct, but the faces we can see appear to have pale skin. Across a narrow band of sand, the women wear dresses with long sleeves, tight bodices, and ankle-length skirts in shades of baby blue, smoke gray, teal green, crimson red, gray, or tan. Three women hold parasols in shades…
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Figures on the Beach

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898)

c. 1867/1870

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 38.2 x 61.2 cm (15 1/16 x 24 1/8 in.) ; framed: 55.9 x 79.1 x 8.9 cm (22 x 31 1/8 x 3 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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