# The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

**Claude Monet** (French, 1840–1926)  
1867  
Oil on canvas  
75.8 × 102.5 cm (29 13/16 × 40 5/16 in.); Framed: 104.1 × 130.2 × 11.4 cm (41 × 51 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.439. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/14598).

## About this work

In 1867 Monet stayed with his aunt in Sainte-Adresse, a suburb of the port city of Le Havre in Normandy, where the artist grew up. Monet began the painting outdoors but likely revised it in his studio. Technical analysis of the work revealed that it started as a beach scene of yachts and tourists but ultimately became a view of sailboats and local fishermen.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

Claude Monet painted this in 1867, aged 27. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

Painting of a beach on a cloudy day with several sailboats on the water, a few rowboats on the shore, and two groupings of people on the sand.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Claude Monet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/claude-monet)

French, 1840–1926

Monet grew up in Le Havre, where Eugène Boudin encouraged him to paint outdoors. In Paris he met Renoir, Sisley and Bazille, and his Impression, Sunrise gave the Impressionist movement its name in 1874. He made a lifelong study of changing light, painting the Gare Saint-Lazare, haystacks, poplars and Rouen Cathedral in series. From 1883 he lived at Giverny, where he built the water garden that filled the last three decades of his work.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: France
- The artist was 27
- Real size: about 30 × 40 in (75 × 102 cm). The 30 × 40 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Impressionism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/impressionism)
- Subjects: landscapes, men, figures, clouds, sky, fisherman, weather/seasons, work
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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