Cotton-white and slate-gray clouds drift and churn across a pale blue sky over a grassy hill that slopes to the edge of a placid body of water in this horizontal painting on paper. The horizon comes about a fifth of the way up the composition, and the scene is loosely painted so many of the brushstrokes are visible. Closest to us, two people with peach-colored skin are on a beach piled with smoke-gray and caramel-brown boulders. Both people wear dark vests over long-sleeved, white shirts and knee-length white pants. They are loosely painted so it is difficult to tell if they wear dark caps or have dark hair. One bends double to reach toward the sand, and the other stands and seems to watch, perhaps holding a brown sack over one shoulder.
In the near distance to our left, a grassy hill rises steeply from the water’s edge from behind a stone wall. A couple touches of gray paint suggest smoke rising from chimneys in the town beyond. About a dozen masted ships, most with their sails tied up, line the harbor across the water from us. The water shifts from deep teal-blue in front of the hill, to our left, to aquamarine and fog-blue to our right. Ripples gently break around a brown boulder in the water near the lower right corner of the paper. The horizon is lined in the deep distance with pale gray mountains beneath the sweeping sky.
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