# On the Beach [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANET, Edouard]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 60 x 74 cm ## Commentary This painting is the product of Manet's 1872 trip to Holland, when the impact of Frans Hals was a great revelation. It was Hals, more then the Impressionists, who converted Manet to painting rapidly. He now put his "black" period behind him and embarked upon plein-air. Madame Manet poses on the beach, and the intense black of her bonnet with its long strings defines the harmonies of the entire painting. ## Related artworks - [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère \(detail\)]() - [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère]() - [A Matador \(Matador Saluting\)]() - [Argenteuil]() - [At Longchamp Racecourse]() - [At Père Lathuille]() - [At the Café \(Bock Drinkers\)]() - [At the Café]() - [Baudelaire Bareheaded, Full Face]() - [Baudelaire with Hat, in Profile]() - [Baudelaire's Mistress Reclining]() - [Bench in the Garden at Versailles]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()