2-930-745 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Baigneuses, plage du Pouldu, 1899. Bathers on the beach at Pouldu. The standing figure is the painter's wife, Marthe Meurier, who holds her newborn baby Bernadette. Near her on the right, a woman wearing a straw hat undresses the painter's other daughter, three-year-old Noële. Marthe is also represented lying naked on the sand to the left, while another woman removes her corset.