The Boardwalk on the Beach at Trouville (Le Trottoir de Bois sur la Plage de Trouville), 1870 by Claude Monet

The Boardwalk on the Beach at Trouville, painted by Claude Monet in 1870 captures fashionable visitors strolling a wooden boardwalk above the sand, parasols open against the summer sun, with the resort town's hotels and villas rising along the bluff behind them. Monet painted this scene during the summer he spent at the Normandy resort with his new wife Camille, part of a small group of Trouville beach paintings made just before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War forced his departure for London.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1870.

The Boardwalk on the Beach at Trouville (Le Trottoir de Bois sur la Plage de Trouville), 1870. Impressionist Seaside Wall Art Canvas Print.