Cliff Walk at Pourville
Claude Monet
1882
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66.5 × 82.3 cm (26 1/8 × 32 7/16 in.); Framed: 88.9 × 104.8 × 10.8 cm (35 × 41 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14620
About the Artist
Claude Monet · 1840–1926
Claude Monet, born Oscar-Claude Monet on November 14, 1840, in Paris and raised in Le Havre, Normandy, began his artistic journey as a successful teenage caricaturist. His formal training started at the Le Havre secondary school of the arts in 1851, where he received his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard. Around 1858, he met Eugène Boudin, who became his pivotal mentor, introducin...