Cliff at Etretat (La Porte d’Amont Étretat)

Cliff at Etretat (La Porte d’Amont Étretat): Claude Monet

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Claude Monet Oil Painting - Cliff at Etretat (La Porte d’Amont Étretat)

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Work Overview: Cliff at Etretat (La Porte d'Amont, Étretat)
Claude Monet
1868-1869
Oil on canvas
79.1 x 98.4 cm

Throughout his career, Monet painted specific sites repeatedly to explore how landscapes changed with the seasons and times of day. He loved the town of Étretat, in Normandy, a favored destination of painters and photographers as well as tourists. He wrote to his wife in 1883, “I can’t help myself from being seduced by these admirable cliffs.” The rocky coastline, which he painted more than sixty times, included natural limestone arches and the celebrated “needle,” seen through the archway of the Porte d’Amont in this early work. To capture this close-up view, Monet stood on a shoal exposed only at low tide. He conveys the texture of the rock’s striations, and their apparent proximity to the sky at dusk, by applying large, colorful bands of paint throughout the composition, a technique he would later abandon for short, comma-like brushstrokes.

Exhibition History
Chefs-D'Oeuvre de l'art Français, Durand-Ruel Paris, Paris, 01/01/1902 - 12/31/1902

Monet, Marlborough Galleries, London, 01/01/1954 - 12/31/1954

Modern Painting Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 04/09/1957 - 05/04/1957; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1957 - 09/15/1957

Claude Monet: Seasons and Moments, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 03/07/1960 - 05/15/1960; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 06/14/1960 - 08/07/1960

Works of Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr., City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/22/1968 - 03/17/1968

Claude Monet, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 03/15/1975 - 05/11/1975

Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977

Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986

Origins of Impressionism, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 09/19/1994 - 01/08/1995

Claude Monet: 1840-1926, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 07/14/1995 - 11/26/1995

32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/01/2014 - 10/15/2015

Monet: The Early Years, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 02/25/2017 - 05/29/2017

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