''Bathing Boys'' ( lv, Peldētāji zēni) is a painting by the artist
Jānis Valters (later Johann Walter-Kurau) from 1900.
Description
The painting is oil on canvas, with dimensions .
The painting belongs to the
Latvian National Museum of Art
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Riga
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Analysis
The image depicts three boys bathing at a beach in warm sunshine. Valters painted several pictures of similar design in the period 1900–1926.
''Bathing Boys in Johann Walter's Painting'', cejsh.icm.edu.pl.
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References
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1900 paintings
Latvian paintings