Régates à Sainte-Adresse (1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926)

Régates à Sainte-Adresse (Regatta at Sainte-Adresse)
1867
Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 101.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monet spent the summer of 1867 at Sainte-Adresse, a well-to-do suburb of Le Havre on the Normandy coast. On June 25, he reported that he had about twenty pictures under way, noting, “Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.” This sunny regatta, watched at high tide by well-dressed bourgeois, seems to have been conceived as a pair with The Beach at Sainte-Adresse (Art Institute of Chicago), an overcast scene at low tide, showing fishing boats hauled onto the beach, peopled with sailors and workers. (MET)

See also:

• Sainte-Adresse (France)