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View at the museum ↗The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet1867
- Attribution
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Physical dimensions
- 75.8 × 102.5 cm (29 13/16 × 40 5/16 in.); Framed: 104.1 × 130.2 × 11.4 cm (41 × 51 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
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In this painting, Claude Monet depicted a moody sky over a beach in Sainte-Adresse, an affluent suburb of Le Havre in northern France. He was familiar with the landscape, having grown up in the area, but the region underwent dramatic change during his lifetime: in particular, the expansion of the country’s rail network turned many rural fishing villages into seaside resorts for tourists. Here, Monet hinted at this transformation, placing a group of local fishermen and their boats in the foreground while drawing the eye to the red details in the outfit of a fashionable woman sitting beside her companion, who idly watches the sailboats through a telescope.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0