Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, special
contributions and funds given or bequeathed by friends
of the Museum, 1967 (67.241)
Monet spent much of the summer of 1867 with his family at the French coastal resort of Sainte-Adresse. This canvas depicts Monet’s aunt, Sophie Lecadre, and his father seated on a garden terrace overlooking the English Channel. The yellow and red flag of Le Havre—whose colors are echoed by the blossoms below—and the French tricolor snap in the brisk sea breeze, as fishing boats, leisure craft, and merchant craft ply the Channel. Monet’s burgeoning technical mastery enabled him to capture the radiant colors and shimmering sunlight of a coastal afternoon in high summer.
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