1870 (ca.), Edgar Degas, Beach Scene -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: During the summer of 1869 Degas vacationed on the northern French coast, where he visited Manet at Boulogne-sur-Mer. This painting of a beach scene-one of four Degas made in 1869-echoes, in many ways, Manet's On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer from the year before. Both depict disparate groups of seaside tourists against the backdrop of a blue-green ocean dotted with sailboats and ships, and both rely on using broad expanses of flat, bright color for the sun-drenched shoreline. Shown at the third Impressionist exhibition, in 1877, Degas's painting focuses on a nanny combing the hair of a child, whose swimming costume is laid out to dry on the sand.
1870 (ca.), Edgar Degas, Beach Scene -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: During the summer of 1869 Degas vacationed on the northern French coast, where he visited Manet at Boulogne-sur-Mer. This painting of a beach scene-one of four Degas made in 1869-echoes, in many ways, Manet's On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer from the year before. Both depict disparate groups of seaside tourists against the backdrop of a blue-green ocean dotted with sailboats and ships, and both rely on using broad expanses of flat, bright color for the sun-drenched shoreline. Shown at the third Impressionist exhibition, in 1877, Degas's painting focuses on a nanny combing the hair of a child, whose swimming costume is laid out to dry on the sand.