Tuesday, July 8, 2025

 <b>Claude Monet </b>
(1840 - 1926)
 
Monet was in his early twenties when he painted this view across the breakwaters to the headland of La Hève, near Sainte-Adresse on the Normandy coast. He knew the area well, as he had spent his childhood in nearby Le Havre. The picture was probably made on the spot as a study for a larger studio painting, La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth) which he showed at the Paris Salon in 1865.


La Pointe de la Hève, Sainte-Adresse
1864 (24 years old)
Oil on canvas
41 x 73 cm. 
The National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-monet-la-pointe-de-la-heve-sainte-adresse
https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-196807

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