The Customs Officers’ Hut at Pourville (La Cabane des douaniers à Pourville), 1882 by Claude Monet

The Customs Officers’ Hut at Pourville (La Cabane des douaniers à Pourville), painted by Claude Monet in 1882 shows the weathered stone hut with its rust colored roof tucked into a scrubby chalk cliff high above the English Channel. Below, a gray green sea stretches to the horizon, where small white sails catch the muted light of an overcast Normandy sky. The canvas comes from Monet’s productive 1882 stay at Pourville, when the old coastguard shelters along the Alabaster Coast became one of his favorite motifs, painted from every angle and in every weather.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1882.

The Customs Officers’ Hut at Pourville (La Cabane des douaniers à Pourville), 1882 by Claude Monet. Coastal Cliff Wall Art Canvas Print.