Rising Tide at Pourville (Marée montante à Pourville)

Claude Monet

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Inspired in part by Gustave Courbet’s marines of the 1860s, Claude Monet here conveys the choppy, windswept sea off the Normandy coast in forceful brushstrokes. He emphasizes the dramatic setting of the abandoned customhouse on the edge of the cliff (now gone, as a result of erosion) by cropping the right edge of the canvas and adopting a striking, elevated vantage point.

Monet made a number of paintings along this coast, working on several of them every day (he had to hire a porter to help him carry them all). Each could take as many as twenty sessions to finish. They were marketable back in Paris. In 1882, the year he made this painting, his dealer paid him a total of 31,000 francs (roughly equivalent to $175,000 today).

Caption

Claude Monet French, 1840–1926. Rising Tide at Pourville (Marée montante à Pourville), 1882. Oil on canvas, 26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.3cm) Frame: 35 x 41 1/4 x 4 in. (88.9 x 104.8 x 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 41.1260. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.1260_PS11.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

European Art

Title

Rising Tide at Pourville (Marée montante à Pourville)

Date

1882

Geography

Place made: France

Medium

Oil on canvas

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.3cm) Frame: 35 x 41 1/4 x 4 in. (88.9 x 104.8 x 10.2 cm)

Signatures

Signed and dated lower right: "82 Claude Monet"

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer

Accession Number

41.1260

Rights

No known copyright restrictions

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