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Follow the curve of the beach toward the cliffs, comparing their warm pink and orange faces with the blue water.
Monet visited Étretat with his family in autumn and winter 1885, outside the busy holiday season. The beach is occupied by a small group of fishing boats rather than summer crowds. Its strong colors show that a quiet coastal subject need not produce a subdued painting.
Oil on canvas · 69.3 × 66.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d'Amont
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 69.3 × 66.1 cm (27 1/4 × 26 in.); Framed: 90.8 × 88.3 × 10.8 cm (35 3/4 × 34 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. John H. (Anne R.) Winterbotham in memory of John H. Winterbotham; Joseph Winterbotham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.