This exquisite work from the artist’s later period is one of the finest examples of the luminous and sunlit style he developed near the end of his career. This small beach at Etretat was a favorite refuge for Boudin, and he often painted his “impressions” here.

Boudin’s fluid brush technique and skill as a colorist has captured a winsome afternoon with the local washerwomen spreading their laundry to dry while lovers stroll hand in hand or sit together by the waterside, the whole surrounded by Boudin’s masterful atmosphere of azure sea and cloud-filled sky.