Édouard Manet: Tarring the Boat (Le Bateau goudronné), Édouard Manet, July–August 1873, Oil on canvas, The scene depicts a beach in Berck-sur-Mer, France, a fishing village on the Channel coast that Édouard Manet visited with his family in 1873. Without a port to shelter their boats, the fishermen in Berck beached their vessels in the sand along the water. Here, they are applying flaming tar to a boat to protect it from dampness while they are ashore., Overall: 19 11/16 x 24 1/8 in. (50 x cm)

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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