Boatyard near Honfleur (Le Chantier de Petits Navires, près de Honfleur), 1864 by Claude Monet

Boatyard near Honfleur (Le Chantier de Petits Navires, près de Honfleur), painted by Claude Monet in 1864 depicts a modest shipbuilding beach on the Normandy coast near Honfleur, its weathered timber sheds, hewn logs, and pebble shingle giving way to a choppy Channel dotted with small fishing sailboats. Monet painted the scene during the formative summer he spent at Honfleur and Sainte-Adresse in the company of Eugène Boudin and Johan Jongkind, the two marine painters who first encouraged him to work directly from nature. The subdued, tonal palette belongs to Monet’s earliest mature period, well before the brighter color and broken brushwork of Impressionism proper.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1864.

Boatyard near Honfleur (Le Chantier de Petits Navires, près de Honfleur), 1864 by Claude Monet. Early Impressionist Wall Art Canvas Print.