Tag: beach

Vahine no te miti (1892)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Vahine no te miti (Femme a la mer, Woman by the sea) 1892 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 74 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The MNBA is fortunate enough to possess two paintings from…

Le Bateaux de pêche (1865)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Bateaux de pêche (The Fishing Boat) 1865 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet painted this work during an intensely productive visit to Trouville with James McNeill Whistler from…

La mer calme (1869)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La mer calme (The Calm Sea) 1869 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet painted this view looking out over the English Channel during a visit to Étretat along the…

Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey (c.1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey c.1883 Oil on canvas, 29.2 x 54 cm National Gallery, London This picture shows the view across Moulin Huet Bay on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Renoir seems to have recreated the…

Personnes sur la plage (1890)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Personnes sur la plage (Figures on the Beach) 1890 Oil on canvas, 52.7 x 64.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Probably painted in 1890 on the Cote d’Azur in southern France, this sun-filled painting shows…

Les vacanciers sur la plage à Trouville (1864)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Les vacanciers sur la plage à Trouville (Vacationers on the Beach at Trouville) 1864 Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 104.14 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis This is one of Eugène Boudin‘s many paintings of the Normandy…

Marée basse, Berck (1886)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Marée basse, Berck (Low Tide, Berck) 1886 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 61.3 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Known as a pleinairiste, Boudin was among the first artists to paint entire compositions, rather than just sketches, outdoors (en…

La Plage à Trouville (1888)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La Plage à Trouville (Beach at Trouville) 1888 Oil on panel, 14.3 x 23.8 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Boudin’s beach scenes provide a charming record of resort fashion through the decades. Here the wide crinolines of the…