The painting shows groups of holiday makers taking the air at the beach. The artist worked a great deal on the Normandy coast, especially at the fashionable resorts of Trouville & Deauville. Two other beach scenes with the same title are also in the Col ...

This painting, together with the Boudin's ' Beach Scene, Trouville' (1860
- 70), were both owned by Monet. It is probable that
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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. ...

The altarpiece was divided into several pieces, probably in the 18th century, & has now been reassembled. The fragments entered the Collection at different dates. The main panel shows the Trinity (NG 727); with an angel on the right (NG 3162); & an an ...

Huber's picture is clearly a fragment of a larger composition. On the far right the hand of the blessing Christ is visible, as is part of his robe & his foot, but the rest of his figure has been lost. The subject of Christ taking leave of his Mother bef ...

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' The Triumph of Love' is a 'desco da parto' (or birth tray). These were originally used in Florence for bringing food to pregnant women, & seem to have become traditional gifts at birth. The subject is loosely derived from Petrarch's ' Triumphs'. ...

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Asnières is an industrial suburb west of Paris on the River Seine. Bathers at Asnières shows a group of young workmen taking their leisure by the river. Bathers at Asnières was the first of Seurat's large-scale compositions. He drew conté crayon studies for individual figures using live models, & made small oil sketches on site which he used to help design the composition & record effects of light & atmosphere. Some 14 oil sketches & 10 drawings survive. The final composition, painted in the studio, combines information from both. While the painting was not executed using Seurat's pointillist technique, which he had not yet invented, the artist later reworked areas of this picture using dots of contrasting colour to create a vibrant, luminous effect. For example, dots of orange & blue were added to the boy's hat. The simplicity of the forms & the use of regular shapes clearly defined by light recalls paintings by the Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. In his use of figures seen in profile, Seurat may also have been influenced by ancient Egyptian art. ...

In the left middle distance is a States yacht ('statenjacht', a vessel used to transport members of government or visiting dignitaries) carrying the ensign of the States-General, the Dutch chamber of provincial delegates in The Hague. Beyond the States yacht are several men-of-war with Dutch colours; one of them, & the yacht, is firing a salute. A group of dated pencil & wash drawings has been related to the picture, which is probably a scene on the Dutch coast near Den Helder. ...