En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish)
1878 · Oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
- Year
- 1878
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 78.7 × 122.9 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Movement
- Realism
Women and children of the Breton fishing village of Cancale walk across the wet sand at low tide with baskets and nets, the sky and the shine of the beach filling the upper half of the canvas. Sargent spent the summer of 1877 at Cancale and worked the sketches into this painting, his first submission to the Paris Salon, where it was shown in 1878 and won him an honourable mention. It was long in the Corcoran Gallery of Art and passed to the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 2014.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A breezy beach scene in silver, blue and sand, for a living room, bathroom or seaside house in a dark wood frame. It suits white or pale blue walls and pairs with Homer's Breezing Up.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1878)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- living room, bathroom, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
