Claude Monet - Garden at Sainte-Adresse 1867
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Garden at Sainte-Adresse 1867
98x129cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC:
Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his family at Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre. It was there that he painted this buoyant, sunlit scene of contemporary leisure, enlisting his father (shown seated in a panama hat) and other relatives as models. By adopting an elevated viewpoint and painting the terrace, sea, and sky as three distinct bands of high-keyed color, Monet emphasized the flat surface of the canvas. His approach—daring for its time—reflects his admiration for Japanese prints. Twelve years after it was made, Monet exhibited the picture at the fourth Impressionist exhibition of 1879 as Jardin à Sainte-Adresse.