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About two dozen men and women sit in straight-backed, wooden chairs gathered along a sandy beach near low, gently breaking waves with sailboats floating in the ocean beyond in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted throughout, making much of the detail indistinct. Most of the people sit with their backs to us but the faces we can see suggest they all have light skin. The people gather in a loose crowd that crosses the right two-thirds of the composition. The women wear long dresses with full skirts, their shoulders wrapped in matching shawls in black, smoke gray,…
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Beach Scene at Trouville

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898)

1863

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 34.8 x 57.5 cm (13 11/16 x 22 5/8 in.) ; framed: 55.6 x 78.1 x 3.8 cm (21 7/8 x 30 3/4 x 1 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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