John Singer Sargent · 1878
Setting Out to Fish
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Breton women and barefoot children with baskets crossing the wet sands at low tide at Cancale, a lighthouse and a crowd on the dune behind them under a bright, cloud-filled sky. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Up to 19 × 12 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Setting Out to Fish
Setting Out to Fish (En route pour la pêche), also known as Oyster Gatherers of Cancale, shows women and children of the Breton village of Cancale heading out to gather shellfish. Sargent prepared it carefully for the Paris Salon of 1878; it was his second Salon entry and was warmly reviewed. The painting was long in the Corcoran Gallery of Art and came to the National Gallery of Art in 2014.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Belle Époque and Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Capri, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
All John Singer Sargent prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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