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Beach Scene
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
During the summer of 1869 Degas vacationed on the northern French coast, where he visited Manet at Boulogne-sur-Mer. This painting of a beach scene—one of four Degas made in 1869—echoes, in many ways, Manet’s On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer from the year before. Both depict disparate groups of seaside tourists against the backdrop of a blue-green ocean dotted with sailboats and ships, and both rely on using broad expanses of flat, bright color for the sun-drenched shoreline. Shown at the third Impressionist exhibition, in 1877, Degas’s painting focuses on a nanny combing the hair of a child, whose swimming costume is laid out to dry on the sand.
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