# The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, in The Sea

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

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1867
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 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.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.439
- 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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