Cliffs and Sea, Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet · c. 1864 · Black chalk on ivory laid paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Cliffs and Sea, Sainte-Adresse is a public-domain drawing by Claude Monet, dated c. 1864. Black chalk on ivory laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Cliffs and Sea, Sainte-Adresse” (c. 1864) belongs to Monet’s habit of staying with one motif — a bridge, a field, a station, the Thames, the lily pond — and painting it again as the light changed.
About the artist
Claude Monet (1840–1926) was a founder of Impressionism. He painted the same motif again and again — haystacks, the Rouen cathedral, the Thames, then the water lilies at Giverny — to catch how light changes.
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