# Boys Bathing at Skagen. Summer Evening [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [KRØYER, Peter Severin]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 101 x 153 cm ## Commentary Boys Bathing at Skagen. Summer Evening 1899 Oil on canvas, 101 x 153 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Among all the Skagen painters, Krøyer was the most brilliant and also the most celebrated in his own day. He would make any composition work as perfectly as could be using only a few simple devices. Here he creates a diagonal movement from the boys in the foreground to the ships by the horizon. The ships - and our gaze - moves to the right, meeting the white moonbeam that takes us back to the boy and the beach of Skagen. ## Related artworks - [Artists at Breakfast]() - [Bathing Children]() - [Hip Hip Hooray! An Artists' Party at Skagen]() - [Interior of a Tavern]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()