MONET, Claude
(b. 1840, Paris, d. 1926, Giverny)

The Manneporte (Étretat)

1883
Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monet painted eighteen views of the beach and the three extraordinary rock formations in the area of Étretat, a fishing village and resort on the Normandy coast: the "Porte d'Aval," the "Porte d'Amont," and the "Manneporte."




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