# Children Playing on the Beach

By [Mary Cassatt](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/mary-cassatt.md>), 1884.

## Details

- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 97.4 × 74.2 cm (38 3/8 × 29 3/16 in.) framed: 117.79 × 94.3 × 6.99 cm (46 3/8 × 37 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Collection: [National Gallery of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-8dd66d7195da9018.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.nga.gov/artworks/52163-children-playing-beach>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Impressionism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/impressionism.md>)

## Image

![Two pale-skinned little girls sit back-to-back on a sandy beach, almost filling the width of this vertical painting.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-8dd66d7195da9018-c6214bfbfad8a972/full.jpg?v=d3b1e9ddb81c968ae0d5e2d7dbdac32046de2a10109556125c401505bfcfeec9>)

## Sources & credits

- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.19. CC0 Open Access.
- Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

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