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Look between the beached boats for the seated visitors, then compare their stillness with the fishing activity around them.
Monet knew this coast from childhood, but by 1867 rail travel was turning the fishing village into a holiday destination. The painting brings those two uses of the beach together. He began it outdoors and revised it in the studio, painting over some earlier tourists and yachts.
Oil on canvas · 75.8 × 102.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
- Artist
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Date
- 1867
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- 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
- 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.