Boats Below the Pourville Cliffs (Bateaux devant les falaises de Pourville), 1882 by Claude Monet

Boats Below the Pourville Cliffs, painted by Claude Monet in 1882, depicts fishing boats gathered on the English Channel beneath the pale chalk cliffs of Pourville, a small Normandy village near Dieppe where Monet spent much of that year. Sailboats with white and rust colored sails dot the calm green gray water beneath a soft, cloud streaked sky, while the sandy beach in the foreground carries the long shadow of the cliffs. The painting belongs to Monet’s celebrated 1882 Pourville campaign, in which he returned again and again to this stretch of coastline to study shifting light on cliff, sea, and sky.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1882.

Boats Below the Pourville Cliffs (Bateaux devant les falaises de Pourville), 1882. Coastal Impressionist Wall Art Canvas Print.