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The Beach, Late Afternoon, 1869. Oil on wood.
Oil on wood · 9 1/4 x 21 in. (23.5 x 53.3 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- The Beach, Late Afternoon
- Artist
- Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine)
- Date
- 1869
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 9 1/4 x 21 in. (23.5 x 53.3 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1836–1910
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.