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La plage à Tourgéville-les-Sablons (1893)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La plage à Tourgéville-les-Sablons (The Beach at Tourgéville-les-Sablons) 1893 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 74.3 cm National Gallery, London Tourgéville-les-Sablons, with its great sweep of beach, lies on the Normandy coast between Deauville and Benerville. Here, the two…

Scène de plage à Trouville (1873)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Scène de plage à Trouville (Beach Scene, Trouville) 1873 Oil on wood, 15.5 x 29.9 cm National Gallery, London Boudin started off painting seascapes, but he found a niche in the 1860s producing small beach scenes. These showed…

Scène de plage à Trouville (1870-1874)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Scène de plage à Trouville (Beach Scene, Trouville) c.1870–1874 Oil on wood, 18.2 x 46.2 cm National Gallery, London By the mid nineteenth century, the Normandy coastal town Trouville had developed into smart seaside resort, attracting well-to-do holidaymakers…

Scène de plage à Trouville (1860-1870)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Scène de plage à Trouville (Beach Scene, Trouville) c.1860–1870 Oil on wood, 21.6 x 45.8 cm National Gallery, London This small panel records a bright but cloudy day as a group of well-dressed visitors gather around a flagpole…

Plage à Trouville (1890s)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Plage à Trouville (Beach at Trouville) 1890s Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 58.1 cm National Gallery, London Boudin is best remembered today for his paintings of crowds of affluent holidaymakers on the beaches of Trouville and Deauville, painted…

Sur la plage, Dieppe (1864)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Sur la plage, Dieppe (On the Beach, Dieppe) 1864 Oil on wood, 31.8 x 29.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The changing skies of France‘s Channel coast and the fashionable crowds on the resort beaches…

Sur la plage à Trouville (1863)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Sur la plage à Trouville (On the Beach at Trouville) 1863 Oil on wood, 26.7 × 48.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boudin, a native of Honfleur, began painting scenes of fashionable beach resorts along…

La Duquesa de Alba (1797)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La Duquesa de Alba (The Duchess of Alba) 1797 Oil on canvas, 210.3 x 149.3 cm Hispanic Society of America, New York   Inscribed bottom center and left (in the soil): “Solo Goya / 1797” Francisco de Goya…

Femmes de Tahiti, ou Sur la plage (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femmes de Tahiti, ou Sur la plage (Tahitian Women on the Beach) 1891 Oil on canvas, 69 x 91.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris In 1891, Gauguin went to Tahiti, an island he imagined to be a primitive paradise. The…