Boats on the Beach at Étretat
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1885
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About this work
Forced indoors by inclement fall weather, Claude Monet painted Boats on the Beach at Étretat and The Departure of the Boats, Étretat while looking out the window of his room at the Hôtel Blanquet. The two form a pair that share a palette, subject, and vantage point. In one of his daily letters to his companion and future wife, Alice Hoschedé, dated November 24, 1885, Monet he described first Boats on the Beach and then Departure of the Boats: “In the afternoon, I worked in my room on my caloges [retired fishing boats covered with tarred planks and used for storage] in the rain, then I attempted to do, always through the window, a picture of the boats departing.”
Monet centered each composition on the boats, combining pastel 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 Departure of the Boats.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 66 × 82.3 cm (26 × 32 7/16 in.)
Museum record · 5 owners · 12 exhibitions
Provenance
- Georges Bernaert.
- Georges Bernheim, Paris, c. 1907.
- Marczell de Nemes, Budapest, by 1911; sold at the Marczell de Nemes Sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, June 18, 1913, lot 113, to Durand-Ruel, Paris, as an agent for an unnamed person, for 9,500 francs.
- Kleinberger Gallery, Paris, by Nov. 15, 1922.
- John Levy Galleries, Paris, by Nov. 15, 1922; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, by Nov. 15, 1922, for $2,295; given by Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Exhibitions
- Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Nemes Marcell képgyűjteményének kiállítása, 1910, no cat. no. Munich, Königliche Ältere Pinakothek München, Sammlung des Königliche Rates Marczell von Nemes, Budapest, ausgestellten Gemälde, June–Dec. 1911, as Strandbild.
- Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle, Sammlung des Königliche Rates Marczell von Nemes, July–Dec. 1912.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Worcester Collection, July 24–Sept. 23, 1923, no cat. Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, Paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 7–Dec. 12, 1937.
- Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, Nov. 4–25, 1938.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. Art Museum of St. Louis, Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition, Sept. 25–Oct. 22, 1957; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nov. 1–Dec. 1, 1957.
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Art Center, Inaugural Exhibition, Dec. 5, 1958–Jan. 31, 1959.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975.
- Highland Park, Ill., Neison Harris, Sept. 26–Dec. 6, 1979, no cat. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent’s Choice: The Musée Imaginaire of Van Gogh, Feb. 14–June 15, 2003.
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monet in Normandy, June 17–Sept. 17, 2006; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Oct. 15, 2006–Jan. 14, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 18–May 20, 2007.
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, Impressionists by the Sea, July 7–Sept. 30, 2007; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Oct. 20, 2007–Jan. 13, 2008; Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Feb. 9–May 11, 2008.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
- Seattle Art Museum, Monet at Étretat, July 1-October 17, 2021, no cat. no. Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
