1868, Edouard Manet, On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer (detail) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: In this unusually elongated canvas lacking realistic perspective, Manet provided a glimpse into a new form of outdoor leisure in the nineteenth century: seaside tourism. He based this scene of fashionably dressed tourists on multiple outdoor sketches made during a visit to Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1868. While there, he wrote to Degas inviting him on a trip to London and suggested they might find a ready market for their work in the English capital.
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1868, Edouard Manet, On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer (detail) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: In this unusually elongated canvas lacking realistic perspective, Manet provided a glimpse into a new form of outdoor leisure in the nineteenth century: seaside tourism. He based this scene of fashionably dressed tourists on multiple outdoor sketches made during a visit to Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1868. While there, he wrote to Degas inviting him on a trip to London and suggested they might find a ready market for their work in the English capital.
Link to the full painting.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition “Manet/Degas".
Link to other Manet paintings.