Aux Petites Dalles (Les Petites-Dalles), c. 1884 by Claude Monet

Aux Petites Dalles, painted by Claude Monet around 1884, depicts a grassy path winding down through a green ravine toward the small Normandy fishing hamlet of Les Petites-Dalles, with pale chalk cliffs and the English Channel rising hazily in the distance. Small figures move along the sunlit track amid dense hedgerows and wildflowers, rendered in the broken, atmospheric brushwork of Monet’s mature Impressionist style. The painting belongs to a series completed during Monet’s 1884 stays on the Norman coast, where the region’s chalky cliffs and changeable northern light offered a cooler counterpart to his Mediterranean travels that same year.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: c. 1884.

Aux Petites Dalles (Les Petites-Dalles), c. 1884 by Claude Monet. Normandy Coastal Wall Art Canvas Print.