# Cliffs at Pourville, in Impressionism

Claude Monet painted this in 1882, aged 42. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Two women in dusky pink and grey, one seated and one standing with a red veil lifted by the wind, look out from a green clifftop over a sea scattered with sailboats and a steamer. Monet spent much of 1882 at Pourville on the Normandy coast near Dieppe, painting the cliffs, beaches and changing sea.

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## The work

- Date: 1882
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 60 × 100 cm (23 5/8 × 39 3/8 in.) framed: 78.58 × 118.27 × 6.99 cm (30 15/16 × 46 9/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985.64.27
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[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.

10 works in the collection.

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