The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

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The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
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Artist Claude Monet
Year1867 (1867)
Medium Oil on canvas
Movement Impressionism
Dimensions75.8 cm× 102.5 cm(29.8 in× 40.4 in)
Location Art Institute of Chicago

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse is an 1867 oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet. Its first exhibition was in 1876 with favorable reactions. It entered Jean-Baptiste Faure's, a French singer and art collector, acquired it for his collection. [1] It is now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago given as part of the Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection by Annie Swan Coburn in 1933. [2] [3]

This painting and the Regatta at Sainte-Adresse were painted from near-identical locations during the same visit to Monet's aunt. [2] The Beach focuses on the fishermen with a bourgeois couple in the background and Regatta emphasizes attending the regatta. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ C., A. (1957). "Homage to Claude Monet". The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly. 51 (2): 23–26. ISSN   1935-6609. JSTOR   4120394 . Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  2. 1 2 Monet, Claude (1867), The Beach at Sainte-Adresse , retrieved 2023-09-27
  3. 1 2 John House; David Hopkins (2007-09-01). Impressionists by the Sea. Royal Academy of Arts. ISBN   978-1-903973-88-2 . Retrieved 2023-09-27.
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