Nº 61
Reading edition
Louis Eugène Boudin FRENCH: 1824-1898
UNLOADING THE CATCH
Height, 14 inches; length, 23 inches
A number of large fishing boats have been left on the sandy beach by the receding tide, and the fisher folk are busy unloading one of them into a one-horse cart which has been backed up to her side. Three fisherwomen are seated on the beach near by, and another one, with a small child, stands near the edge of the water alongside the horse, which patiently awaits his load. A few sunlit clouds drift high in the sky and the shimmering expanse of water is flooded by sunlight, the horizon line being nearly lost in the warm glow. In the foreground shallow pools of water in the sand reflect the sky and the masts and hulls of the boats.
Signed at the lower right, E. Boudin, ’86.