Femme et Enfant au Bord de la Mer, Étretat 1865

"Femme et Enfant au Bord de la Mer, Étretat" (Woman and Child on the Seashore, Étretat) is a painting by French artist Camille Corot, completed in 1865. The painting depicts a woman and a child on the shore, with the vast sea and a muted sky in the background. Corot's signature style of soft, hazy brushstrokes and muted colors is evident in this work. The gentle, almost melancholic atmosphere of the painting is evocative of the beauty of nature, a hallmark of Corot's art. The soft, diffused light and the overall tranquil composition are characteristic of the Barbizon School, which was a group of French landscape painters of the mid-19th century.