Boats on the Beach
1824
Medium
lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 23.5 × 31.12 cm (9 1/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Andrew Robison
Accession Number
2014.140.2
Art Historical Context
**Boats on the Beach** a delicate lithograph by French artist Bernard Gaillot, created in 1824 and now housed in the National Gallery of Art,, D.C., thanks to the generous gift of Andrew Robison Measuring a modest 23.5 × 31.12 cm on wove, this print captures a serene coastal scene with boats drawn up on the shore, evoking the quiet rhythms of maritime life in early 19th-century EuropeLithography, the innovative medium Gaillot employed, was still a youthful technique in 1824—barely two decades after its invention by Alois Senefelder. By drawing with greasy crayon directly on a prepared limeston...