In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
This carefree summertime scene brimming with vacationers is set against the beach of Moulin Huet Bay on the Channel Island of Guernsey. Renoir spent a little over a month on the island from September to early October in 1883. While most of Renoir's Guernsey paintings feature voyeuristic depictions of bathing women and men, here he captures children at play. The rapid notation of the overall brushwork and generalized landscape elements suggest that the artist executed this painting in the studio. Renoir may have intended it as a study, as it remained in his possession until his death.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — The Apple Seller
Auguste Renoir — Oarsmen at Chatou
William Glackens — The Little Pier
William Glackens — Beach at Dieppe
Georges Seurat — Horse and Boats (Study for "Bathers at Asni
Paul Cézanne — Group of Bathers (Groupe de baigneurs)
Georges Seurat — Group of Figures (Study for "Un dimanche à 
Paul Cézanne — Au bord de l'étang (The Pond)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — Bathers Playing 
Claude Monet — The Cliff Walk at Pourville
Paul Cézanne — The Large Bathers (Les grandes baigneuses)
Auguste Renoir — Picking Flowers
