Hôtel des Roches Noires, Trouville, 1870 by Claude Monet

Hôtel des Roches Noires, Trouville, painted by Claude Monet in 1870 looks along the raised boardwalk of the fashionable Normandy resort, where elegantly dressed holidaymakers stroll beneath fluttering tricolour flags and the grand hotel's spire rises against a breezy sky. Two sailing boats lean into the wind on the pale strip of sea beyond, their sails catching the quick, sunlit strokes typical of Monet's early Impressionist technique. Painted during the summer Monet spent at Trouville with his new wife Camille on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War, the canvas captures the leisure of a Second Empire seaside season already nearing its end.

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

Hôtel des Roches Noires, Trouville, 1870 by Claude Monet. Impressionist Normandy Seaside Wall Art Canvas Print.