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The women gathering shrimps on the right are observed by the fashionably dressed ladies on a platform of rock on the left. The latter have with them a black page and a man in military costume who gestures across to the river. This group, balanced in the composition by the trees to the right, is silhouetted against the sun and overshadowed by the dark cloud that stretches over the lighthouse on the central axis of the painting.
This Italian coastal scene bathed in soft sunlight is clearly influenced by the port scenes of Claude, though much of the effect in Vernet's painting depends upon its picturesque human detail.
Title
A Sea-Shore
Date
1776
Medium
Oil on copper
Measurements
H 62.2 x W 85.1 cm
Accession number
NG201
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Richard Simmons, 1846/7
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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