The Departure of the Boats, Étretat

1885

Monet painted this work and Boats on the Beach at Étretat while looking out the window of his hotel room. He centered each composition on the boats, combining blues, pinks, purples, and greens to render wet surfaces. The brightly colored hulls of beached crafts lend relative scale to the structures in Boats on the Beach, and the groups of figures at the water’s edge, composed of quick, gestural strokes, register human activity in this work.

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Artist

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

Date

1885

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73.5 × 93.5 cm (28 15/16 × 36 13/16 in.); Framed: 102.3 × 121.7 × 10.8 cm (40 1/4 × 47 7/8 × 4 1/4 in.)

Origin

France

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

Potter Palmer Collection