The Boardwalk at Trouville (Sur les planches de Trouville), 1870 by Claude Monet

The Boardwalk at Trouville (Sur les planches de Trouville), painted by Claude Monet in 1870 looks along the wooden promenade of the Normandy resort, where a woman in white strolls with her parasol beneath a fluttering French tricolor. Bathing huts and grand seafront buildings frame the sunlit planks, and a brisk Channel sky of scudding clouds fills more than half the canvas. Monet painted it during his summer 1870 stay at Trouville with Camille, recording the fashionable beach life he observed just before the Franco-Prussian War sent him to London.

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

The Boardwalk at Trouville (Sur les planches de Trouville), 1870 by Claude Monet. Normandy Seaside Wall Art Canvas Print.