The Hôtel des Roches Noires at Trouville (L’Hôtel des Roches Noires à Trouville), 1870 by Claude Monet

The Hôtel des Roches Noires at Trouville (L’Hôtel des Roches Noires à Trouville), painted by Claude Monet in 1870 captures the breezy glamour of Normandy’s most fashionable seaside resort, where flags snap in the Channel wind above a sunlit promenade. Elegantly dressed holidaymakers gather beneath a pale canvas awning and climb the grand steps of the hotel, whose golden facade glows against a sky of scudding clouds. Monet painted this lively scene during his summer honeymoon with Camille in 1870, working quickly en plein air just weeks before the Franco-Prussian War drove the young family to London.

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

The Hôtel des Roches Noires at Trouville (L’Hôtel des Roches Noires à Trouville), 1870 by Claude Monet. Normandy Seaside Resort Wall Art Canvas Print.