Auguste Renoir - Children on the Seashore, Guernsey 1883

Children on the Seashore, Guernsey 1883
Children on the Seashore, Guernsey
1883 91x66cm oil/canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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From Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
On a bay ringed by cliffs, fashionable young Parisians enjoy the sun and sea. This scene was inspired by the beaches of Guernsey, an island in the English Channel where Renoir spent the summer of 1883 sketching. Although loosely defined (and unfinished at its right and upper edges), this picture wasn’t painted en plein air, outdoors on a Guernsey beach, but back in Renoir’s Paris studio, from studies he had made during his stay on the Channel.