Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish) 1878 Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 122.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington En route pour la pêche depicts a scene in the quiet fishing village of Cancale,…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Deux femmes causant au bord de la mer, Saint Thomas (Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas) 1856 Oil on canvas, 27.7 x 41 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • St Thomas (US Virgin Islands)
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Trouville, bateaux de pêche échoués dans le chenal (Trouville, fishing boats beached in the channel) c.1848 Oil on paper on canvas, 21 x 23.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les Falaises à Étretat (The Cliffs at Étretat) 1885 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81.3 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Étretat (France)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water 1840 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 122.2 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La plage de Trouville à l’heure du bain (The beach of Trouville at bath time) 1864 Oil on canvas, 67.5 x 104 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Femme aux bas blancs (Woman with White Stockings) 1864 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Traditionally, European painters made the nude subject decorous by presenting it as part of an edifying mythological narrative.…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Sainte-Adresse (The Beach at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 75.8 × 102.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the summer of 1867 Claude Monet stayed with his aunt in Sainte-Adresse, an affluent suburb of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pluie, Étretat (Rain, Étretat) 1886 Oil on canvas, 60.7 x 73.7 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo See also: • Étretat (France)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les enfants du pêcheur (The Fisherman’s Children) 1867 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The special appeal of this rather small canvas is threefold: It combines a calm beach at low tide with an…