The Departure of the Boats, Étretat
Claude Monet, 1885
Monet painted this work and Boats on the Beach at Étretat while looking out the window of his hotel room. He centered each composition on the boats, combining blues, pinks, purples, and greens to render wet surfaces. The brightly colored hulls of beached crafts lend relative scale to the structures in Boats on the Beach, and the groups of figures at the water’s edge, composed of quick, gestural strokes, register human activity in this work.
| Artist | Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) |
|---|---|
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Size | 73.5 × 93.5 cm (28 15/16 × 36 13/16 in.); Framed: 102.3 × 121.7 × 10.8 cm (40 1/4 × 47 7/8 × 4 1/4 in.) |
| Origin | France |
| Type | Painting |
| Museum | Art Institute of Chicago · museum page |
| Rights | Public domain (CC0): free to download, print and hang. |
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