Boats on the Beach at Étretat, 1885 – Claude Monet Wall Art | Impressionist Normandy Coastal Canvas Print

Painted in 1885, Claude Monet's Boats on the Beach at Étretat belongs to the painter's later Étretat campaign, when he returned to the celebrated Normandy fishing town to work the cliffs and shore once again. By 1885 Monet had settled at Giverny and was developing the more atmospherically engaged manner that would carry him into the great series paintings of the next decade. The fishing vessels of Étretat — painted in the freely handled brushwork of his fully mature Impressionist style — produce one of the painter's most chromatically rich and compositionally distinguished bodies of work. A historically significant and atmospherically powerful work for any interior drawn to the finest of French Impressionism.