Figures on a Beach, Northern France
Medium
Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite with stopping out
Dimensions
sheet: 5 1/2 x 8 15/16 in. (13.9 x 22.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Malcolm Hewitt Weiner Foundation Gift and Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Richardson Gift, 2004
Accession Number
2004.266
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Shotter Boys · 1803–1874
Thomas Shotter Boys was born on 2 January 1803 in Pentonville, London, and received his first professional training as an apprentice to the engraver George Cooke. When his apprenticeship concluded he crossed the Channel to Paris, a move that would transform his artistic direction entirely. There he encountered Richard Parkes Bonington, the brilliant English watercolourist whose fresh, luminous ren...