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By the Seashore, 1883. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 36 1/4 x 28 1/2 in. (92.1 x 72.4 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- By the Seashore
- Artist
- Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 36 1/4 x 28 1/2 in. (92.1 x 72.4 cm)
- Credit line
- H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1841–1919
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.