The Beach at Honfleur

The Beach at Honfleur
French: Le Bord de la Mer à Honfleur
Artist	Claude Monet
Year	1864 (1864)
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	60 cm × 81 cm (24 in × 32 in)
Location	Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34.062895°N 118.357837°W / 34.062895; -118.357837
Website	collections.lacma.org/node/233916

The Beach at Honfleur is an oil-on-canvas painting by French impressionist Claude Monet. The painting depicts a beach on the Côte de Grâce with sailboats, the hospital of Honfleur, and a lighthouse in the distance. In the foreground, a solitary figure in a blue smock stands on the beach. The painting was created with short, thick brushstrokes, typical of Impressionism.[1]

Monet painted The Beach at Honfleur in the summer of 1864, when he and Frédéric Bazille were staying at nearby Sainte-Adresse, where Monet's parents kept a summer house.[1] Monet painted several scenes of the harbor, jetty, and town of Honfleur during this time period, including A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur.

A painting reminiscent of The Beach at Honfleur is depicted in Studio on Rue Furstenberg (1866) by Bazille.[2] Monet and Bazille shared this studio in Paris from 1864 to 1866.[1]

See also

• List of paintings by Claude Monet

References

1. Brettell, Richard R. (1984). A Day in the country : impressionism and the French landscape. Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ISBN 9780810908277.
2. Champa, Kermit Swiler; Pitman, Dianne W. (1998). Brenneman, David A. (ed.). Monet & Bazille: A Collaboration. Harry N. Abrams, Inc./High Museum of Art. ISBN 0-8109-6384-1.