Claude Monet - The Sea at Saint-Adresse 1868
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The Sea at Saint-Adresse 1868
60x81cm oil/canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh:
This windblown seascape, vigorously painted and richly textured, is an outstanding example of Monet's early work. He undoubtedly spent a good deal of time on this beach in his youth as he grew up in Saint-Addresse, a residential suburb of Le Havre from where this view was painted. It was completed in 1868, less than ten years after Monet first decided to become an artist. Its subject is traditional, with its strongest precedents in seventeenth-century Dutch painting, but its style is distinctly modern. He must have thought a good deal of the picture because he showed it in the second Impressionist exhibition held in Paris in 1876. Monet first divided the picture almost exactly in half between the sea and sky, drawing attention to the abstract qualities of the composition. He then applied his paint with forcefulness and subtlety, choosing his colors with a refined eye to capture the effects of the overcast day and the movement of the sea.