Beach Scene, Trouville Print

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This painting is one of the two panels in the Collection that may have belonged to Monet (see also, ' Beach scene, Trouville', 1870-4). Characteristic of Boudin's approach is the delicate fragmentation of the handling, which invests the scene with a sense of atmospheric freshness. This work records a bright but cloudy day with a group of fashionably dressed visitors gathered around a flagpole on the sandy beach. Between the misty blue of the sky & the brown tones of the s&, an emphatic white dress is visible in the centre, with touches of bright red & blue among the figures to each side. The seated figures to the left suggest comparison with Monet's painting of 1870, ' The Beach at Trouville', which probably shows Boudin's wife to the right, seated beside Mme Monet.