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Fishing for Oysters at Cancale
StyleAmerican Realism
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John Singer Sargent completed this early work showing oyster gatherers on a Brittany beach. The composition captures brilliant sunlight on wet sand and working figures with the bravura brushwork that would make Sargent famous.
Painted when Sargent was only twenty-two, this work already displays his mastery of light and atmosphere. It hangs at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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About Fishing for Oysters at Cancale
It's at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Sargent painted this at age twenty-two, already showing his mastery of light John Singer Sargent created it as part of the American artistic tradition.
Cancale is a fishing village in Brittany famous for its oyster beds. Sargent painted this early plein-air work there, capturing the silvery Impressionist light of the Breton coast.
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