Terrace at Sainte-Adresse

Date: 1867
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Dimensions: 98 x 130

Claude Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his family in Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre. It was there that he painted this exciting, sunlit scene of contemporary leisure, taking his father (shown in a Panama hat) and other relatives as models. By adopting an elevated viewpoint and painting the terrace, sea, and sky as three distinct high-toned bands of color, Monet emphasized the flat surface of the canvas.

Monet painted picture Terrace at Sainte-Adresse in 1867. Prevailing color of this fine art print is blue and its shape is landscape. Original size is 98 x 130. This art piece is located in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926). A native Parisian, who thoroughly developed the idea of Impressionism. Monet almost scientifically studied the effect of light on different objects. He devoted himself to so called transitory states, which quickly led him to work with colour and light, his paintings acting on the viewer from the first impression. His use of open-air painting and objects which were special only because of light opened the way for the beginnings of modern painting. Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (1874) not only gave the name to the whole art movement, but secured Monet a place among the best painters of all times. At one time, he resided in London and created his famous study Houses of Parliament (Monet wondered, How could the English painters paint Parliament when it cannot be seen for the fog?). In the Giverny, which became his favourite retreat after the death of his wife, he painted motifs from his garden and the popular series Water Lilies - the world of the water was as poetic and mysterious as a primordial paradise.