Regatta at Sainte-Adresse
Monet spent the summer of 1867 at Sainte-Adresse, a well-to-do suburb of Le Havre on the Normandy coast. On June 25, he reported that he had about twenty pictures under way, noting, "Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails." This sunny regatta, watched at high tide by well-dressed bourgeois, seems to have been conceived as a pair with The Beach at Sainte-Adresse (Art Institute of Chicago), an overcast scene at low tide, showing fishing boats hauled onto the beach, peopled with sailors and workers.
Artwork Details
- Title: Regatta at Sainte-Adresse
- Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)
- Date: 1867
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 29 5/8 x 40 in. (75.2 x 101.6 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Bequest of William Church Osborn, 1951
- Object Number: 51.30.4
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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