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Oil painting divided horizontally with water in the lower half and clear, blue sky in the upper half, a cliff jutting halfway across the composition from the left. The cliff has a peach, cream, and yellow streaking face and undulating grass green top, all these colors streaking among the fragmented blue strokes of the water as its reflection. Black specks like people stand along the narrow beach. Peach sand dunes undulate on the left horizon.

Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882

1882

Claude Monet

(French, 1840–1926)

France, 19th century

oil on fabric

Framed: 65.4 x 106.7 x 10.5 cm (25 3/4 x 42 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 59.9 x 81.3 cm (23 9/16 x 32 in.)

Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon 1947.196

Location: On view at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Oct 10, 2025 - Feb 1, 2026

Did You Know?

The narrow strokes of black paint along the the edge of the water at the base of the cliff indicate bathers.

Description

This is one of several views Claude Monet painted of Pourville, a fishing village on the north coast of France in Normandy. Pourville featured a boardwalk, a broad beach, and stunning cliffs. According to the artist's correspondence, the village was nothing special, but he was inspired by the landscape: "One could not be any closer to the sea than I am, on the pebbled beach itself and the waves beat at the foot of the house." During the spring of 1882 in Pourville, Monet stayed in a small hotel similar to the dwellings seen at the foot of the cliff to the right in this painting.

?1882
Possibly bought from the artist in 1882 by Durand-Ruel, Paris, France (this information from the Wildenstein catalogue raisonné cannot be confirmed by Durand-Ruel as their files on this matter are not conclusive).
1889
Henry White Cannon [1850-1934], New York, NY, 1899.
1947
Mrs. Henry White Cannon [1861-1954] New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1947-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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