Cliff Walk at Pourville

Cliff Walk at Pourville

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

1882

On view — Gallery 240 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In February 1882, Claude Monet went to Normandy to paint, one of many such expeditions that he made in the 1880s. This was also a retreat from personal and professional pressures. His wife, Camille, had died three years earlier, and Monet had entered into a domestic arrangement with Alice Hoschedé…

Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66.5 × 82.3 cm (26 1/8 × 32 7/16 in.); Framed: 88.9 × 104.8 × 10.8 cm (35 × 41 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Origin
France