Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Trois bateaux de pêche (Three Fishing Boats) 1886 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Throughout the life of Claude Monet, the movements of water, the ever-changing light and weather conditions of the sea…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Deauville 1893 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 74.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London A native of Normandy, Eugène Boudin made his name depicting fashionable Parisian visitors at its seaside resorts. Later in his career, he turned to painting…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Sainte-Adresse 1867 Oil on canvas, 57 × 80 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In June 1867, at the urging of his father, Claude Monet went to Sainte-Adresse, a popular resort town on the Normandy coast, for an extended…
Hoschedé Monet, Blanche (1865-1947) Bateaux au Port de Diélette, Normandie (Boats at the Port of Diélette, Normandy) 1938 Oil on canvasboard, 37.8 x 45.7 cm Private collection See also: • Diélette (France)
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Melancholy (The Reinhardt Frieze) 1906–1907 Tempera on canvas, 87 x 156 cm Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin In 1906, Munch was commissioned by the Berlin theatre director Max Reinhardt to create a picture frieze for a hall on the upper…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1870 Oil on canvas, 38 × 46.5 cm National Gallery, London Monet’s earlier paintings of the Normandy coast had emphasised it as a working seascape, peopled with fishermen who had to…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Summer Night 1890 Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 102 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Winslow Homer began as a cartoonist reporter during the Civil War, before painting scenes describing the daily life of the army and the rural world…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Femme sur la plage (Woman on the Beach) 1887 Oil on paper on canvas, 75.3 x 74.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Port-en-Bessin, La Plage (Port-en-Bessin, The Beach) 1884 Oil on canvas, 46 x 64.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection This study remained in the artist’s studio for a long time, and was sold fairly late,…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Crepuscule in Opal, Trouville 1865 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 46 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Art should be independent of all claptrap—should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear,…