Paintings
Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882
Painting
Details
- Author / creator
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1882
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 65.4 × 106.7 × 10.5 cm; Unframed: 59.9 × 81.3 cm
- Support
- Other
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of Sir Frederick Ashcombe, 1947
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Oil on fabric
Signature and marks
Signed lower right: 82 Claude Monet
