Sainte-Adresse
1867
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 57 × 80 cm (22 7/16 × 31 1/2 in.) framed: 75.57 × 99.7 × 10.16 cm (29 3/4 × 39 1/4 × 4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Catherine Gamble Curran and Family, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1990.59.1
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...