Coastal Landscape
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926), c. 1864
oil on canvas, 53.0 cm x 80.4 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the Rembrandt Association)
There’s not a soul in sight, not even a fishing boat out at sea. This complete focus on nature is something Monet learned from the artists of Barbizon. Not long before he painted this landscape, he spent some time in the artists’ colony and garnered new ideas from them.
Monet was only 24 when he painted this coastal vista in Normandy. He often worked in the Honfleur area and that is probably where he produced it.
- Object number
- s0461S1996
- Dimensions
- 53.0 cm x 80.4 cm, 77.0 cm x 104.5 cm, 9.3 cm
- Provenance
- Galerie André Schoeller, Paris; possibly sold by Galerie André Schoeller to Galerie Huinck & Scherjon, Amsterdam for FRF 37.000, November 1936; sold by Galerie Huinck & Scherjon to a private collector, The Netherlands, in or after 1937; consigned by this private collector or his heirs to auction New York, Christie's (Impressionist and modern paintings, drawings and sculpture, part I), lot 109 (Bord de mer), withdrawn, 11 May 1995; sold by this private collector or his heirs through Kunsthandel Ivo Bouwman to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 19 September 1996.
- artist
- Claude Monet
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the Rembrandt Association)
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