# En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish)

By [John Singer Sargent](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/john-singer-sargent.md>), 1878.

## Details

- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 78.7 × 122.9 cm (31 × 48 3/8 in.) framed: 117.16 × 161.77 × 13.97 cm (46 1/8 × 63 11/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Collection: [National Gallery of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-8dd66d7195da9018.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.nga.gov/artworks/166472-en-route-pour-la-peche-setting-out-fish>)

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

## Image

![Four women and two children, all with pale skin, carry baskets as they walk along a beach under a brilliant blue sky in this horizontal painting.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-8dd66d7195da9018-b0c9d1e167abae75/full.jpg?v=d978bb4e4e0c2c2f6ada3e5efce33c8a34b50389e7d4fc8dcc8d68d2b2714ba8>)

## Sources & credits

- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1917), 2014.79.32. CC0 Open Access.
- Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1917)
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

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