Coastal Landscape
Currently on view
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926), c. 1864
oil on canvas, 53 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)
Monet was just 24 years old when he painted this seaside view in Normandy, likely near Honfleur. The scene is devoid of people, with the focus entirely on nature: a rolling dune landscape contrasts against a cloudy sky and turquoise water. Only the roof of a fisherman’s hut or beach house, glimpsed through the trees, hints at any human presence.
Thanks to the Barbizon School painters, landscape painting had gained greater appreciation as a genre. In the mid-19th century, they captured the untouched nature of the Fontainebleau Forest. Monet had spent time there, gathering fresh inspiration, shortly before he painted this tree-lined coastal scene.
- Object number
- s0461S1996
- Dimensions
- 53 cm x 80.4 cm, 77 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New York, Christie's (Impressionist and modern paintings, drawings and sculpture, part I), lot 109 (Bord de mer), withdrawn, 11 May 1995; sold by this private collector or his heirs through Kunsthandel Ivo Bouwman to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 19 September 1996.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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