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La Falaise à Fécamp

Artist (Paris, France, 1840 - 1926)
Date1881
Mediumoil on canvas
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsOverall: Height: 65 cm, Width: 81.1 cm
Frame: Height: 87.1 cm, Width: 103.8 cm, Depth: 10.5 cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1927 with assistance from Sir James Murray.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationOn Display - Gallery 10
Object numberABDAG003046
About MeAs a child Claude Monet went to live in Le Havre. There he met Eugène-Louis Boudin who persuaded him to take up landscape painting. Monet shared Boudin's love of the Normandy coastline and throughout his lifetime he returned to this part of France to paint its dramatic cliffs and seascapes.

This is an early example of Monet's sequence of cliff paintings. The composition is severely simple, the canvas divided to the left by the horizon and to the right by three consecutive cliffs which together form a strong diagonal.

Art Chat is an engaging series of short audio and video interpretations offering young people’s perspectives of artworks and objects in our collection. Alongside the image of this object you can now watch the interpretation of Monet's work by learners from Hanover Street Primary School.

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It is interesting to note that Monet has long been considered the driving force behind Impressionism, particularly as applied to outdoor painting such as this example.
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