Coucher de Soleil à Étretat, 1883 – Claude Monet Wall Art | Impressionist Coastal Sunset Canvas Print

Painted in 1883, Claude Monet's Coucher de Soleil à Étretat (Sunset at Étretat) captures the dramatic chalk cliffs and natural sea arches of the Normandy fishing town under the rich, warmly saturated light of the setting sun. Étretat — with its celebrated Éretat formations including the Porte d'Aval, the Aiguille, and the Manneporte — was among the most beloved coastal subjects of nineteenth-century French painting, and Monet returned to the cliffs repeatedly throughout the 1880s. The sunset paintings of this series are among his most chromatically intense, the warm light playing across the chalk and water with extraordinary effect. A magnificently atmospheric and chromatically rich work for any interior drawn to the finest of French Impressionism.