Art, literature & history
Figures on a Beach, Northern France
1830
- Dating
- Exact year
- 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)
- Collection no.
- 2004.266
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Shotter Boys. Figures on a Beach, Northern France. Thomas Shotter Boys; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Malcolm Hewitt Weiner Foundation Gift and Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Richardson Gift, 2004. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Figures on a Beach, Northern France — Thomas Shotter Boys. 1830.
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).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Purchase, Malcolm Hewitt Weiner Foundation Gift and Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Richardson Gift, 2004.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.