Description
Claude Monet – Fishing Boats on the Beach at Étretat
| Year of creation: | 1883-1884 |
| Original size: | 100.5 cm x 73.5 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Corboud Foundation, Cologne |
In this oil on canvas, Monet tried to capture the moment, to feel the light and atmosphere of a specific moment of the day. In this painting he depicted his impression of this scene. In the oil on canvas Fishing Boats on the Beach at Étretat, the artist painted the coast and the warehouse shacks on it. In this oil on canvas, Monet pays a lot of attention to the atmosphere with which he conjures soft objects and a pleasant and inviting scene in the painting.
