manet beach Dimensions (inches):53 x 65" is part of a style

is part of a style classified by experts as "social realism"

with an immediacy that was unusual in 17th-century Dutch painting

dull and gray

The sky is rendered with delicate strokes of bluish-gray and peach-pink in a gradient

Bouguereau titled "Italian Girl Drawing Water"

manet beach Dimensions (inches):53 x 65" is part of a styleDuring a holiday stay in a village called Berck sur Mer, located in northern France, in the department of Pas de Calais. The characters shown in the canvas are his wife Suzanne, and brother Eugne, who posed especially for him. The black and grey colors seen in this work, rarely used by Manet, along with the absence of realism in the perspective, make this work considered one of the most influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of the time, known as