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Cliff Walk at Pourville

  • Painting of a cliff overlooking the sea. Two figures in long dresses, one with a parasol, stand on the cliff beneath blue sky.

Date:

1882

Artist:

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

About this artwork

In Feb 1882, Claude Monet went to Normandy to paint, one of many such expeditions that he made in the 1880s. This was also a retreat from personal and professional person pressures. His married woman, Camille, had died 3 years earlier, and Monet had entered into a domestic arrangement with Alice Hoschedé (whom he would ally in 1892, later her husband'due south death). France was in the midst of a lengthy economic recession that affected Monet'southward sales. In improver, the artist was unenthusiastic almost the upcoming seventh Impressionist exhibition—divisions within the group had become pronounced by this fourth dimension—and he delegated the responsibleness for his contribution to his dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel.Disappointed in the area effectually the harbor metropolis of Dieppe, which he found likewise urban, Monet settled in Pourville and remained in this line-fishing hamlet until mid-April. He became increasingly enamored of his surroundings, writing to Hoschedé and her children: "How beautiful the countryside is becoming, and what joy it would be for me to show you all its delightful nooks and crannies!" He was able to do so in June, when they joined him in Pourville.The two young women strolling in Cliff Walk at Pourville are probably Marthe and Blanche, the eldest Hoschedé daughters. In this work, Monet addressed the trouble of inserting figures into a landscape without disrupting the unity of its painterly surface. He integrated these elements with one another through texture and colour. The grass—composed of short, brisk, curved brushstrokes—appears to quiver in the breeze, and subtly modified versions of the same strokes and hues propose the women's wind-whipped dresses and shawls and the undulation of the sea. Ten-radiographs evidence that Monet reduced the rocky outcropping at the far correct to balance the proportions of sea and heaven.

Status

On View, Gallery 240

Department

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Creative person

Claude Monet

Championship

Cliff Walk at Pourville

Origin

France

Appointment

1882

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower right: Claude Monet 82

Dimensions

66.5 × 82.3 cm (26 1/8 × 32 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1933.443

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